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  • If you want to use an ALT+ some key combination you would select ALT and then the corresponding key set you wanted to check against such as A-Z and 0-9.

    ActiveHotkeys Shows You Which Keys Are Available | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • If you want to use an ALT+ some key combination you would select ALT and then the corresponding key set you wanted to check against such as A-Z and 0-9.

    Lifehacker 2009

  • If CTRL + ALT + Backspace refused to work, try to login to console by pressing CTRL +ALT +

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2008

  • If CTRL + ALT + Backspace refused to work, try to login to console by pressing CTRL +ALT +

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2008

  • Two decades later, his own blood was exhibiting high concentrations of an enzyme called ALT, which the liver produces during inflammation.

    Hepatitis C: The Insidious Spread Of A Killer Virus 2007

  • On Monday he passed these to the FBI. Later in the week the researcher, along with Rishi Khan, a 19-year-old University of Delaware undergrad, figured out that the Melissa author started off with Shiver, the handiwork of a scriptor known as ALT-F11 (proof that virus writers are weirdos: they name themselves after function keys).

    Biting Back At The Wily Melissa 2008

  • A number of studies have shown that although some people may not appear to benefit from interferon treatment with a favorable biochemical and virologic response (that is, the ALT level did not normalize, and there continues to be a detectable level of virus in the blood on the RNA test), the liver cells actually look healthier histologically (that is, when examined under the microscope).

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • If you appear to have a “near complete response” to interferon—that is, your ALT level falls but does not completely normalize, and your viral load drops dramatically from, for example, 3 million to 8,000 copies of the virus—and if you have any suggestion of iron overload on blood tests or a liver biopsy, phlebotomy may be an important adjunct to drug therapy.

    DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001

  • Only parameters of liver function, namely ALT, AST, and γGT, were slightly elevated in the patient.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Claudia A. Nold-Petry et al. 2010

  • Only parameters of liver function, namely ALT, AST, and γGT, were slightly elevated in the patient.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2010

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