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Sophie Aldred has voiced Ace for several audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, alongside Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and, in some stories, Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield or Philip Olivier as Hex Schofield. [5] In one of these stories, The Rapture, Ace discovers that she has a brother named Liam, of whom she had no previous knowledge. As the more experienced traveller, Ace has developed a slightly flirtatious mentor-teacher relationship with Hex. How the audio plays tie in with the other media is not clear, and the continuity of the various lines may not match up with each other. König, I.R.; Fuchs, O.; Hansen, G.; von Mutius, E.; Kopp, M.V. What is precision medicine? Eur. Respir. J. 2017, 50, 1700391. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Danilov, S.; Savoie, F.; Lenoir, B.; Jeunemaitre, X.; Azizi, M.; Tarnow, L.; Alhenc-Gelas, F. Development of enzyme-linked immunoassays for human angiotensin I converting enzyme suitable for large-scale studies. J. Hypertens. 1996, 14, 719–727. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

Our data suggest that the source of circulating ACE is independent of lung capillaries. In line with that, the human heart was identified as an alternative source for circulating ACE. Additional ACE expressing and secreting cells can also be found in the apical surface of epithelial cells in the proximal tubule of kidney, the mucosa of small intestine, the syncytial trophoblast of placenta and the choroid plexus, in addition to various regions within the central nervous system [ 24]. Moreover, ACE was also found to be expressed by macrophages [ 33]. While the role of these potential ACE sources in the circulating ACE levels is unknown, it is well established that circulating ACE level increases in sarcoidosis [ 34]. We also confirmed elevated circulating ACE levels in patients with sarcoidosis and proposed that it can be used as a biomarker for sarcoidosis [ 27, 28]. Using a similar approach to ours, an independent study reported genotype-dependent ACE expression in the human heart [ 15] in full accordance with our findings in the present study, suggestive of a relationship between serum and cardiac ACE activities. Danilov, S.M.; Balyasnikova, I.V.; Danilova, A.S.; Naperova, I.A.; Arablinskaya, N.E.; Borisov, S.E.; Metzger, R.; Franke, F.E.; Schwartz, D.E.; Gachok, I.V.; et al. Conformational fingerprinting of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE): Application in sarcoidosis. J. Proteome Res. 2010, 9, 5782–5793. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Ace states in Dragonfire that a time storm sends her to Svartos after she failed her O levels; she states in the same serial that she is 16 years old. Using this genotype-dependent expression pattern as a tracer, we tested if the primary source of circulating ACE is the lung in humans. To do so, we tested ACE levels in serum and lung samples of the same patients in parallel, using techniques developed in our laboratory in the past years [ 17, 18, 20, 27, 28]. Patients with the DD genotype had significantly higher circulating ACE concentrations and activities than patients with the ACE II genotype, while patients with the ACE ID genotype showed intermediate values confirming earlier reports. However, we did not find any correlation of lung tissue ACE expression or activity with the ACE I/D genotype. This finding suggests that ACE expression in the lungs is independent of ACE I/D genotype, and consequently, the genotype-dependent serum ACE secretion must have an alternative source of ACE. A recent report on lung ACE reported tissue ACE expression decreases in lung cancer [ 23]. Indeed, a negative correlation between lung cancer and circulating ACE activity was shown half a century ago, in a limited number of patients [ 32]. This study suggested that if lung microcapillaries are being lost in the tumor, then circulating ACE activities will decline. However, none of the previous studies attempted to directly test the relationships between circulating and lung tissue ACE expressions. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first to do so in a fairly large human population.

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Ace appeared in ten stories (32 episodes), and was the final companion in the original run of the classic series. [6] These are only guidelines based on our experience with delivery times. Delivery times will vary especially during peak / festive seasons. SECURE POSTAGE McDonagh, A.F.; Vreman, H.J.; Wong, R.J.; Stevenson, D.K. Photoisomers: Obfuscating factors in clinical peroxidase measurements of unbound bilirubin? Pediatrics 2009, 123, 67–76. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Ace's relationship with the Doctor remains strained for some time, boiling over in Blood Heat when the Doctor destroys an unstable parallel Earth (where Manisha is still alive) and under the influence of an alien creature she stabs him through one of his hearts in The Left-Handed Hummingbird. In No Future (also by Cornell) the Meddling Monk tries to manipulate her into betraying the Doctor, which she seemingly does, again stabbing him and leaving him alone on an ice planet. In reality she stabbed him with a pantomime knife from the TARDIS wardrobe and she is playing her own game (partly to teach him what it feels like to be manipulated). When the Monk and his chained Chronovore offer her a chance to return Jan to life, she refuses and rejoins the TARDIS crew, her issues with the Doctor resolved. In Set Piece by Kate Orman, Ace becomes stranded in Ancient Egypt and comes to realise that she can survive without the Doctor, but that she also increasingly sees the world as he does. At the book's end she leaves the Doctor again to become Time's Vigilante, using a short-range time hopper mounted on a motorcycle to patrol a particular segment of time; in effect doing what the Doctor does, but on a smaller scale. She appears in later books, notably Head Games, Happy Endings, and Lungbarrow. Hooper, N.; Keen, J.; Pappin, D.; Turner, A. Pig kidney angiotensin converting enzyme. Purification and characterization of amphipatic and hydrophilic forms of the enzyme establishes C-terminal anchorage to the plasma membrane. Biochem. J. 1987, 247, 85–93. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

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Ace is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. [3] A 20th-century Earth teenager from the London suburb of Perivale, she is a companion of the Seventh Doctor and was a regular in the series from 1987 to 1989. [4] She is considered one of the Doctor's most popular companions. [5] Danilov, S.M.; Tikhomirova, V.E.; Metzger, R.; Naperova, I.A.; Bukina, T.M.; Goker-Alpan, O.; Tayebi, N.; Gayfullin, N.M.; Schwartz, D.E.; Samokhodskaya, L.M.; et al. ACE phenotyping in Gaucher disease. Mol. Genet Metab. 2018, 123, 501–510. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] It is a widely accepted that angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is primarily expressed in endothelial cells [ 21]. It is also believed that the primary source of circulating ACE is the lung, based on the observation that all lung capillaries express ACE, while ACE expression is only approximately 20% of that in other organs [ 22]. It was estimated that ~75% of blood ACE originates from lung capillaries [ 23]. However, it was also found that additional organs, such as small intestines and kidneys, have comparable ACE expression levels to that in the lungs [ 24]; moreover, the conversion of angiotensin I into angiotensin II (the physiological function of ACE) is extremely high in the human heart when compared to dog, rabbit and mouse hearts [ 25].Sticova, E.; Jirsa, M. New insights in bilirubin metabolism and their clinical implications. World J. Gastroenterol. 2013, 19, 6398–6407. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Huber, A.H.; Zhu, B.; Kwan, T.; Kampf, J.P.; Hegyi, T.; Kleinfeld, A.M. Fluorescence sensor for the quantification of unbound bilirubin concentration. Clin. Chem. 2012, 58, 869–876. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] [ PubMed] Danilov, S.M.; Tikhomirova, V.E.; Kryukova, O.V.; Balatsky, A.V.; Bulaeva, N.I.; Golukhova, E.Z.; Bokeria, L.A.; Samokhodskaya, L.M.; Kost, O.A. Conformational fingerprint of blood and tissue ACEs: Personalized approach. PLoS ONE 2018, 13, e0209861. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

What the Doctor is aware of, but Ace is not, is that her arrival on Iceworld was no accident but part of a larger scheme stretching across the centuries and conceived by Fenric, [6] an evil that had existed since the beginning of the universe. Ace is a "Wolf of Fenric", one of many descendants of a Norseman tainted with Fenric's genetic instructions to help free it from its ancient prison so it can evolve humans into the Vampiric Haemovores, and a pawn in the complex game between it and the Doctor. After Fenric is defeated in 1943, Ace continues to journey with the Doctor. [7] At one point in the story, Ace offers to distract a guard so that the Doctor can free a prisoner. When the Doctor asks how she plans to divert the guard's attention she replies that she is "not a little girl". She proceeds to lead the guard away from his post by intriguing him with a combination of slightly suggestive innuendo towards the guard and cryptic musings about the Doctor's machinations. The scene suggests that she is aware of both her developed sexuality and the Doctor's manipulative tendencies. McAlpine, Fraser (29 July 2011). "A Companion to the Doctor's Companions". Anglophenia. BBC America . Retrieved 28 April 2015. Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), 2019.0101; Chemical Computing Group Inc.: Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019. Danilov, S.M.; Gordon, K.; Nesterovitch, A.B.; Lünsdorf, H.; Chen, Z.; Castellon, M.; Popova, I.A.; Kalinin, S.; Mendonca, E.; Petukhov, P.A.; et al. An angiotensin I-converting enzyme mutation (Y465D) causes a dramatic increase in blood ACE via accelerated ACE shedding. PLoS ONE 2011, 6, e25952. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] [ PubMed] However, in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor, Sarah Jane reveals to her companions that she has done research on some of the Doctor's companions. She mentions "that Dorothy something — she runs that charity, 'A Charitable Earth' ("ACE"). She's raised billions." [8] In the same episode, the Eleventh Doctor reveals that his Tenth incarnation looked in on each of his former companions as he prepared for regeneration at the end of " The End of Time".

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