What's the difference between anserine and foolish?
Anserine
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.
(a.) Pertaining to the Anseres.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was especially active in hydrolyzing carnosine and anserine, preferring dipeptides with histidine in the C-terminal position.
(2) The changes in the plantaris were associated with increases in the concentration (mumol per g wet weight) of anserine (18%) and carnosine (50%).
(3) Carnosine and anserine have been measured in samples of breast and leg muscles from three turkeys.
(4) Quadriceps rehabilitation, pes anserines transfers and semimembranosus transfers were thought not to influence anterolateral rotary instability.
(5) Carnosine, homocarnosine, and anserine are present in high concentrations in the muscle and brain of many animals and humans.
(6) Carnosine increased, whereas both anserine and L-1-methyl-histidine decreased the inhibitory effect of calpastatin on calpain II.
(7) No anserine was detected in the eggs and yolk sac, but yolk-free fry significantly increased its concentration after hatching.
(8) Imidazole and anserine activate membrane-bound phosphodiesterase, while caffeine inhibits it.
(9) This manuscript describes the production, characterization and use in immunolocalization studies of antisera directed against carnosine and anserine.
(10) Two related dipeptides homocarnosine (gamma-aminobutyryl-L-histidine) and anserine (beta-alanyl-N-methyl-L-histidine) are present in the CNS of mammals and birds, respectively.
(11) Three days later, soleus, plantaris, and gastrocnemius muscles of the sham hindlimb and the contralateral denervated hindlimb were excised and analyzed for intracellular concentrations of 23 free amino acids and the dipeptides carnosine and anserine.
(12) The enzyme activation constant was found to be equal to 20 mM, and the inhibition constant corresponded to 22 mM for both carnosine and anserine.
(13) The level of phosphodiesterase activity in the heavy fraction correlates with its sensitivity to imidazole, anserine and caffeine.
(14) Carnosine, anserine and L-1-methyl-histidine activated muscle calpain II assayed at 2.5 mM Ca2+.
(15) It is assumed that the skeletal muscle dipeptides carnosine and anserine are highly effective as natural antioxidants.
(16) The effect of various muscle conditions on anserine and carnosine contents suggests that these peptides have some physiological role in muscular functions.
(17) A variety of imidazoles closely related to carnosine and anserine are inactive, even after addition of transition metal ions.
(18) Anserine and carnosine in the muscle of growing rats were measured to explore the effect of dietary methionine.
(19) One had mild pain and one had moderate pain attributed to pes anserine bursitis.
(20) The anserine antiserum is highly specific for anserine while the carnosine antiserum cross-reacts with all three dipeptides.
Foolish
Definition:
(a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
(a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
(1) So, logic would dictate that if Greeks are genuinely in favour of reform – and opinion polls have consistently shown wide support for many of the structural changes needed – they would be foolish to give these two parties another chance.
(2) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
(3) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
(4) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(5) Shorten said while Hicks was “foolish to get caught up in the Afghanistan conflict” the court decision showed an injustice.
(6) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
(7) And it means that if Labour were to win, Mr Brown would be very foolish, indeed downright wrong, to move Mr Darling.
(8) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(9) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(10) But what people did when they were young and foolish, or even when they were not yet public figures, is not always the same.
(11) While we have this, it would be foolish to pursue a policy of still constraining resources in the acute sector.
(12) All three echoed remarks made recently by the Bank’s governor, Mark Carney, who said it would be “foolish” to cut rates in response to a temporary fall in inflation.
(13) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(14) In a high-risk, 65-minute speech in Manchester delivered without notes, and 20 minutes longer than he intended, Miliband tried to take the mantle of the 19th-century Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli's one nation, pointedly grabbing the territory and language of the centre ground which he believes David Cameron has foolishly vacated.
(15) But one backbencher, West Australian Liberal Dennis Jensen , has said it is foolish to set up a $20bn medical research fund at the same time as the government is cutting money from scientific agencies, including the CSIRO and the Australian Research Council.
(16) Donald Trump is too weak, too foolish and too chaotic to see beyond the immediate crises he has created.
(17) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(18) They privately acknowledge they were foolish in taking the bait, but argue they have broken no rules since they were offered no jobs, and therefore have no commercial interests to declare in the MPs' register.
(19) "Hopefully, the lesson is to stop this foolish childishness," McCain said Thursday on CNN.
(20) The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” As for the social conditions that obtain: “It is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.” Looking back on my political activism of the 1970s and 80s, there was a lot of refusing to accept existing conditions on the basis that they were “wrong and foolish”.