(a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
(a.) Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that akin to the phosphorylation-dependent activation of enzymes, the transcriptional transactivation functions of CREB-327 involve a phosphorylation-dependent allosteric conformational mechanism.
(2) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(3) Chronic exposure to opioids results in the development of tolerance to the inhibitory effect of the agonists, and withdrawal of the latter results in a decrease in phagocytic capacity, which suggests that a state akin to dependence has been developed in these cells.
(4) However, some will be disappointed not to see the new movies from Terrence Malick, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin and Roy Andersson.
(5) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
(6) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(7) Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
(8) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
(9) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(10) A distinctive clonal myeloproliferative disorder, somewhat akin to chronic myeloid leukemia but with prominent erythroid and mast cell components, as well as granulocytic excess, was characterized.
(11) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(12) The authors describe a modification of the Akin procedure using a distal oblique osteotomy with rigid internal fixation.
(13) Our studies in pigs suggest that the intestinal secretion of lipoproteins commences rapidly after birth since proteins akin to human apo-B48 and apo-B100 are detectable in plasma VLDL some 2-3 h after parturition.
(14) This hypothesis is akin to Freud's theory of primal fantasies.
(15) It is more akin to a conspiracy to extract money from the firm that properly belongs to others.
(16) The alternative is a famine akin to that seen in Ethiopia 30 years ago.
(17) In particular, difficulty with the attachment of appropriate responses to environmental stimuli, akin to those observed in animals with lesions to central dopamine pathways, indicates a role for dopamine in response selection processes.
(18) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
(19) Some of the IgM antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) present in patients with the recently described primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) also react with PTC and could thus be natural autoantibodies akin to those found in mice.
(20) Akin to this observation, cAMP also potentiates the EGF-mediated increase in t-PA mRNA.
Kain
Definition:
(n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the rat cortical slice preparation, 7 was shown to antagonize excitation induced by 1 with some selectivity, whereas 14 proved to be a rather selective antagonist of KAIN-induced excitation.
(2) The effects of L-glutamate diethyl ester (GDEE) HCl, glutarate diethyl ester (GlrDEE) and glutarate dimethyl ester (GlrDME) on depolarizing responses to alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5- methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA), kainate (Kain), N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and quisqualate (Quis), and spontaneous paroxysmal discharges (SPDs) were examined.
(3) That is a pejorative accusation, that’s not the phrase that I would use to describe what I read about this week,” Kaine said.
(4) The neurotoxic Amanita muscaria constituent ibotenic acid, a nonselective NMDA receptor agonist, has been used as a lead structure for the development of the specific NMDA receptor agonist AMAA, AMPA, and a number of therapeutically interesting AMPA and KAIN receptor agonists.
(5) The candidate’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump visited a Hindu temple this week in Virginia, the home state of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine which is expected to vote blue on 8 November.
(6) But we’re not allowing it to be a normal.” Kaine also spoke of the US campaign against Islamic State, although the terror group has not claimed responsibility for the explosion.
(7) And media surveys, at least in Virginia and Ohio, show Kaine and Brown winning (restrictive Indiana laws make polling prohibitively expensive there).
(8) So for the next 26 days, we need to do everything we can to help her and Tim Kaine win this election.
(9) N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA), quisqualic acid (QUIS), and kainic acid (KAIN), respective agonists for three excitatory amino acid (EAA) receptor subtypes, stimulated [3H]dopamine ([3H]DA) release from dissociated cell cultures of fetal rat ventral mesencephalon.
(10) The central excitatory neurotransmitter (S)-glutamic acid (Glu) activates at least three types of receptors the NMDA, AMPA, and kainic acid (KAIN) receptors.
(11) A staffer for Bob Casey said the senator had received 80,000 letters from constituents, a 900% increase in correspondence over the previous year; Mark Warner said his office had received 41,000 calls specifically in opposition to DeVos; Tim Kaine’s office put the number of letters and calls in opposition to her at 25,000.
(12) The early component decayed with a time constant of 2 s to a lower level of membrane current and discontinuation of the application was followed by an after-current which returned to the base-line with a time constant of about 7 s. It is suggested that NMDA, ASP, GLU and QU, but not KAIN, not only activate the receptor channel complex but also induce use-dependent block.
(13) Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, argued that his running mate has hard-earned experience in such crises.
(14) KAIN-evoked release was unaffected by the sucrose substitution and was attenuated in the Na2SO4-containing buffer.
(15) The deaminated analogues of GDEE are very weak Kain antagonists.
(16) The Chamber spent $4.4m alone trying to block the election of Democrat Tim Kaine in swing state Virginia, and another $4.3m to keep Democratic senator Sherrod Brown from re-election.
(17) I have traditionally been a supporter of the Hyde amendment,” Kaine told the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard in July.
(18) Compound 14 and, in particular, 7 effectively protected rat striatal neurones against the neurotoxic effects of KAIN, whereas the toxic effects of 1 were reduced only by 7.
(19) Neither Kaine nor the Clinton campaign has said if he now supports Clinton’s position.
(20) Donald Trump groping remarks reveal 'pattern of sexual assault', says Kaine Read more Trump’s press event came just 48 hours after a tape was released of the candidate making obscene boasts about using his fame to kiss and grope women without their consent.