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TUFTSIN

Specialty Definition: TUFTSIN

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Health

N(2)-((1-(N(2)-L-Threonyl)-L-lysyl)-L-prolyl)-L-arginine. A tetrapeptide produced in the spleen by enzymatic cleavage of a leukophilic gamma-globulin. It stimulates the phagocytic activity of blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes and neutrophils in particular. The peptide is located in the Fd fragment of the gamma-globulin molecule. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TUFTSIN

Specialty definitions using "TUFTSIN": Adjuvants, Immunologic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TUFTSIN

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Books

  • Antineoplastic, immunogenic, and other effects of the tetrapeptide tuftsin : a natural macrophage activator (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Anagrams: TUFTSIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-n-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: unfits.

-2 letters: stint, stunt, suint, tints, tufts, unfit, units.

-3 letters: fins, fist, fits, funs, nits, nuts, sift, snit, stun, suit, tins, tint, tits, tuft, tuis, tuns, tuts, unit.

-4 letters: fin, fit, fun, ifs, ins, its, nit, nus, nut, sin, sit, sun, tin, tis, tit, tui, tun, tut, uns, uts.

-5 letters: if, in, is, it, nu.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-n-s-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: flauntiest, infatuates, muttonfish, outfasting.

 

+4 letters: frustrating, frustration, fungistatic, fustigating, fustigation, outfeasting, refutations, stultifying.

 

+5 letters: confutations, counterfeits, fluctuations, frustrations, fustigations, infatuations, muttonfishes, stupefaction, sulfuretting, titaniferous, tristfulness, tumefactions, unstratified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TUFTSIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 55 46 54 53 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ..-    ..-.    -    ...    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01010101 01000110 01010100 01010011 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#85 &#70 &#84 &#83 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0055 0046 0054 0053 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54554054534348

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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