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BG-1 infected clones were tested for tumorigenicity by injection of cells (10 6cells in 0.1cm 250% matrigel; Collaborative Biomedical Products, Bedford, MA, USA) into subcutaneous sites in 6-week-old athymic Ncr-nude mice (NCI Animal Program, Bethesda, MD, USA) that were ovariectomized at approximately 4 weeks of age.
Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, debuting as a Broadway actor opposite Marisa Tomei, "should be humiliated" by his performance (Vincent Canby, the New York Times ). His faults are said to range from the small (he can't render accents) to the large (he exhibits the "charisma of a week-old head of lettuce," says the New York Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole).
To determine whether this effect is also observed in vivo , excision wounds were made on the underside of wings of 2 week-old chicks.
Specifically, we examined individual replicate hybridizations of the A array from the worm developmental time course at each of 0 ( n = 4), 36 ( n = 3), 48 ( n = 4) and 60 ( n = 4) hours after synchronization of worm eggs by bleach, as well as a larger set of 13 hybridizations of all three arrays to samples ranging from oocytes to 2-week-old worms.
The gene for the other key enzyme, aspartate aminotransferase, was not included in this array, however, EST sequences are well represented in diverse organs including the green tissues of 2-week-old shoot and mixed adult tissue libraries (ZmDB [ 13]).