(n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
(2) Studies were performed to characterize the determinants of proximal tubule ammonia entry (and retention) in vivo.
(3) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(4) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.
(5) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
(6) The high rate of H pylori ammonia production in uraemic patients should accentuate any ammonia induced effects.
(7) The determination of ammonia in plasma, using glutamate dehydrogenase, is complicated by non-specific oxidation of the coenzyme, promoted by components of the sample matrix.
(8) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
(9) The effect of ammonia is partially reversed by nitrate.
(10) The addition of glutamine or ammonia increased glycine incorporation of control cultures, but failed to do so in treated cultures.
(11) Plasma dextrose and bicarbonate declined in concentration while potassium, lactate, LDH, ammonia, and hemoglobin rose with storage.
(12) The changes were proportional to the concentration and duration of ammonia treatment.
(13) The Km for ammonia of carbamyl phosphate synthetase was determined by preincubating isolated liver cells for 30 min in the absence of ammonia and bicarbonate and in the presence of ornithine, chloroquine, which blocks lysosomal proteolysis, and aminoxy acetic acid, which inhibits transaminases.
(14) The highest predictive values for the exclusion of TiC are shown by inconspicuous concentration capacity accompanied by normal ammonia excretion, total acid excretion, water diuresis, free water clearance or urine dilution capacity.
(15) All dogs were evaluated at the beginning of the study by complete physical examination; total and differential WBC counts; serum biochemical analysis (alanine transaminase and alkaline phosphatase activities and bilirubin and albumin concentrations); sulfobromophthalein excretion, ammonia tolerance, and glucagon response testing; portal and intraparenchymal pressure determinations; operative mesenteric portography; and histologic assessment of hepatic biopsy specimens.
(16) The significant differences (p=0.001) are found by lysine, ammonia, histidine, arginine, threonine, glutaminic acid, and phenyl alanine.
(17) Formation of anthranilate will proceed in the presence of partially pure subunit I provided ammonia is available in place of glutamine.
(18) Net synthesis of microbial N (Nn) was calculated from ammonia-N incorporation.
(19) Attachment of sufficient quantities of PEG to phenylalanine ammonia-lyase substantially reduces immunological recognition and clearance of the conjugated enzyme in mice.
(20) No direct relationship exists between glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP+) and glutamate-ammonia ligase in P. denitrificans, while the glutamate synthase (NADPH) activity changes in parallel with that of the latter enzyme.
Hartshorn
Definition:
(n.) The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
(n.) Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been shown (Dabrowska, R., Aromatorio, D., Sherry, J.M.F., and Hartshorne, D.J.
(2) The smooth carboxyl-terminal connector is a serine-rich region located around positions 632-640 of the rabbit skeletal sequence and would represent the "A" site that is conformationally sensitive to the myosin 10 S-6 transition and to its interaction with actin (Ikebe, M., and Hartshorne, D. J.
(3) This complex could be regarded as another kind of Ca2+-independent MLCK different from that obtained by chymotryptic digestion of MLCK (Walsh, M.P., Dabrowska, R., Hinkins, S., & Hartshorne, D.J.
(4) Changes in Keq upon deuterium substitution, which are predicted by the calculations of Hartshorn and Shiner (1972), should be observed for many other reactions as well.
(5) The more sophisticated computer analysis of the data has revealed a substantial CD contribution from the low-affinity sites (approximately 30% of the high affinity contribution at pH 6.94) and suggests that skeletal TN-C with Ca2+ bound at the low-affinity sites is in a different conformation from that when just the high-affinity sites are occupied, in agreement with a recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study on this system (Seaman, K. B., Hartshorne, D. J.
(6) These findings are consistent with the ordered model of myosin phosphorylation suggested by A. Persechini and D. J. Hartshorne [Science (Washington, DC), 213:1383-285, 1961] (36).
(7) Incubation of long (greater than or equal to 4.0 microns) thick filaments, separated from Limulus telson muscle under relaxing conditions, with either intact MLCK in the presence of Ca2+ and calmodulin, or Ca2(+)-independent MLCK obtained by brief chymotryptic digestion (Walsh, M. P., R. Dabrowska, S. Hinkins, and D. J. Hartshorne.
(8) It was shown previously [Ikebe, M., & Hartshorne, D. J.
(9) This protein has been purified from tissues and named telokin (Ito, M., Dabrowska, R., Guerriero, V., Jr., and Hartshorne, D. J.
(10) In this interview, Jeanette Hartshorn, PhD, RN, FAAN, project director of the committee, explains the need for the proposed National Board of Nursing Specialties and the effects the board would have on nursing, certifying organizations, health care providers, and consumers.
(11) For this purpose, the sodium channel was partially purified, using the method of Hartshorne and Catterall [J Biol Chem 259: 1667-1675, 1984], and 32P-phosphorylated using [gamma-32P]ATP and exogenously added catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
(12) Myosin light chain kinase can also phosphorylate threonine 18 in addition to serine 19, and this phosphorylation resulted in an increase in the actin-activated MgATPase activity (Ikebe, M., and Hartshorne, D.J.
(13) At relatively high concentrations of myosin light chain kinase, a second site on the 20,000-dalton light chain of smooth muscle myosin is phosphorylated (Ikebe, M., and Hartshorne, D. J.
(14) Smooth muscle myosin can be phosphorylated by myosin light chain kinase at the serine 19 and threonine 18 residues of the two 20,000-dalton light chains (Ikebe, M., Hartshorne, D. J., and Elizinga, M. (1986) J. Biol.
(15) The modulator-dependent protein kinase may be identical to the myosin light chain kinase; chicken gizzard light chain kinase has been shown activatable by the modulator protein (Dabrowska, R., Sherry, J. M. F., Aramatorio, D. K., and Hartshorne, D. J.
(16) From a correlation between the degree of phosphorylation and enzymatic activity, it was suggested that both myosin heads must be phosphorylated before either head could be activated by actin, and that phosphorylation of filamentous myosin occurred in a negatively cooperative manner (Persechini, A., and Hartshorne, D. J.
(17) 90, 1), one can calculate by use of the relative fractionation factors of Hartshorn and Shiner (Hartshorn, S.R.
(18) [Sherry, J. M. F., Gorecka, A., Aksoy, M. O., Dabrowska, R., & Hartshorne, D. J.
(19) 264:1431-1436, 1989], while S. aureus protease-digested S-1 (SAP-S1) has intact LC20, but Vmax closer to that of unphosphorylated HMM [Ikebe and Hartshorne, 1985].
(20) Cohen's Drug Interactions: A Handbook for Clinical Use, Gant's Drug Interaction Index: A Survey of Drug Interactions and Hartshorn's Handbook of Drug Interactions, were deemed useful as an added check if an interaction suspected clinically was not included in any of the former group.