(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.
Jerky
Definition:
(a.) Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see the stitching in Igglepiggle's blanket; you sense (you'd be right) that the jerky Pontipines are manipulated by magnets, like the players in an old-fashioned toy theatre.
(2) Therefore, in the present study, the slow phase of CN during convergence was analyzed in 7 patients horizontal and jerky type CN.
(3) She also had contractures of hips, knees and ankles, and bilateral spasticity and jerky movements.
(4) The main form of translocation on laminin was a jerky cycle of prolonged lamellipod extension followed by rapid (approximately 200- less than 500 microh h-1) movement of the cell body into the extended lamellipod.
(5) Electronystagmographic study showed that this jerky eye movement appeared especially with changes of fixation of the eyes.
(6) When she violates his expectancy for rhythmic interaction by presenting a still, unresponsive face to him, he becomes visibly concerned, his movements become jerky, he averts his face, then attempts to draw her into interaction.
(7) In addition to the consistent neurological abnormalities described previously in this syndrome, the infant had a striking neurological constellation, absence of primitive reflexes, jerky eye movements, failure to habituate to repeated stimuli, inadequate behavior development, and absence of orientation responses to visual or auditory stimuli.
(8) This ambulatory piece of salmon jerky can offer himself up for public service and it’s treated as totally normal.
(9) Jerky nystagmus of latent typ was the most frequent form, pendular nystagmus the next.
(10) The defects included abnormal OKN (86%), jerky pursuit (76%), ocular dysmetria (57%), slow saccades (43%), abnormal VOR or VVOR (43%), and fixation instability (19%).
(11) "It tastes a bit like beef jerky; it goes well with a cold beer."
(12) The influences of lift velocity and jerky movement on lumbar stress are quantified.
(13) Seven patients (group I) developed an oculomotor syndrome in the sound eye characterized by jerky nystagmus in abduction, adduction fixation preference, and head-turn toward the side of the fixating eye.
(14) Huntington's Disease, a severe disease lasting about 10 years and involving personality changes, jerky movements, paranoia, dementia, inability to think cognitively, and eventual death, shows up between the ages of 30-50.
(15) He's still got it, and offers to fetch it from his Hampstead hallway, but he's been leaping up and down all morning chasing coffee and cakes, and every jerky movement is accompanied by a quiet groan, only half-stifled.
(16) During ECC, the pressure on the sternum was maintained for about 0.5 sec (sustained pressure technique), flow and mean arterial pressure were improved by 32 and 20%, respectively, as compared with flow and pressure obtained with a quick and more jerky compression.
(17) Spastic contractions of the striated sphincter during detrusor contraction were observed in 8 patients with an intermittent and jerky urinary stream.
(18) About half were indistinguishable from wild type; the others exhibited "jerky" or "twirly" movements instead of relatively straight paths.
(19) d-Tc increased ambulation and caused jerky side-to-side movements.
(20) Expiration is attended by a specific component of a vomiting reaction--jerky contraction of the abdominal muscles directed at evacuation of the food from the gastrointestinal tract.