Different groups of adherent cells were washed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS for 20 min, and permeabilized with 0.1% TritonX-100 for 5 min at room temperature.
This is not the behaviour or belief of a tiny group of adherents.
Toulson said: "I would describe religion in summary as a spiritual or non-secular belief system, held by a group of adherents, which claims to explain mankind's place in the universe and relationship with the infinite, and to teach its adherents how they are to live their lives in conformity with the spiritual understanding associated with the belief system.
The newspaper also said that the man had spent time in Gornja Moaca, an isolated village in northern Bosnian which is home to a small group of adherents of Wahabbism, a strict form of Islam.
The school of hefty grains and replacement ingredients -- soy for dairy, carob for chocolate, anything for fat -- substitutes philosophy for flavor, perhaps pleasing a small group of adherents but turning off a majority of people, who roll their eyes and reach for another Big Mac.
We are all discussing about something similar to a "paradigm shift", in the sense described by Kuhn [3]: (a) presenting results "sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity" and (b) "being sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to solve".
Feeling pressure from his own core group of adherents Augustus turned to the Senate for help.
Compared with the group of adherents to phosphate binders, the group of non-adherents to phosphate binders had a marginally significantly higher percentage of men (66.3% vs. 57.6%, P =0.058), a younger mean age (46.98 ± 13.25 yr vs. 49.21 ± 13.26 yr, P =0.074) and a lower median number of months on dialysis (48.78 vs. 60.15, P =0.056).
The extensively adjusted odds of a patients refer that stopped phosphate binder always or almost always (compared with rarely or never) because he/she did not have the medication were approximately 2.8 times higher in the group of non-adherents than in the group of adherents to phosphate binder (OR, 2.77; 95% CI, 0.57-13.47).
The group of adherent women was slightly older than the group of non-adherent women, with mean ages of 58.0 and 56.0 years, respectively (student's t-test, p < 0.0001).
