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I try to provoke him a bit more.
President Clinton, all the papers note, appeared angry at a press conference, resolving to continue America's seven-year-old ban on nuclear tests and warning that the election of a pro-test president in 2000 could provoke tests by Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.
However, no nociceptive stimulation was applied in our protocol, and we therefore can not exclude the possibility that insufficient enkephalin was released to provoke the internalization of the δ-opioid receptor.
1%) previously shown to provoke massive necrotic cell death [ 20 ] exhibited a characteristic necrotic morphology (Fig.
Our analysis of Cdc5's role in release of Cdc14 from the RENT complex revealed that Cdc5 is required for disassembly of RENT in late anaphase, that Cdc5 can provoke premature disassembly of RENT in pre-anaphase cells, and that Cdc5 controls (at least in part) the phosphorylation state of Net1 during anaphase.