(1) The onesie-wearing 21-year-old is the darling of the glossies and tabloid catnip, a social media princess and a talented musician, best mates with Rihanna, parties with Prince Harry and about to break into Hollywood.
(2) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
(3) Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.
(4) Fractionation of the commercial sample of catnip oil by either distillation or gc yielded 40% nepetalactone and 43% nepetalic acid.
(5) All of this makes it catnip to users – and to the media, which dutifully reports every twist and turn on the site.
(6) However, removal of the vomeronasal organ did not attenuate any of the behavioral reactions to catnip.
(7) But Europe is the catnip that makes Tory eyes cross, and the next two years are going to be wall-to-wall Europe.
(8) The rolling and rubbing during a catnip reaction might be a sexual response activated by the accessory olfactory system since the system projects to parts of the brain involved in mediation of sexual behavior.
(9) Olfactory bulbectomy immediately eliminated catnip responding, revealing that the chemosensory stimulus evoking the catnip reaction is undoubtedly mediated through the main olfactory system.
(10) Catnip oil, nepetalic acid, and a nepetalactone-enriched fraction were evaluated for toxicological and behavioral effects in mice and rats.
(11) Lincoln is measured, respectful and quietly reassuring; unadulterated awards catnip.
(12) Nor will you find him out and about at gigs or parties or openings or any of the usual stuff that's rockbiz catnip.
(13) The area was obviously catnip to people who wanted something more from life than can be bought in Walmart.
(14) But the other thought is that the campaign is proving to be catnip to Gove’s personal ambitions.
(15) In the chewing and mouthing of the catnip source, substances might be dissolved in saliva and transported to the vomeronasal organ.
(16) The alcohol extract of catnip has a biphasic effect on the behavior of young chicks.
(17) And if they do, they’d like her as mangled up as possible.” Clinton said other candidates were able to avoid scrutiny by continuously talking about things that are “catnip to the people who get bored talking about” candidates’ positions on serious issues.
(18) 1.8m page views, 1,139 comments 5) Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' Tuesday 9 April 2013 The comedian's periodic columns for the Guardian this year rarely failed to cause a stir, but this one , about Thatcher's death, proved particular catnip.
(19) cis,trans-Nepetalactone, the biologically active component of catnip, was force-fed to the domestic cat.
(20) Rats were injected with saline and then exposed for 20 min to the presence of a domestic cat pretreated with catnip.
Nep
Definition:
(n.) Catnip.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to the intact endothelial monolayers, in homogenates additional kininase activity was found which was not affected by either ACE and NEP inhibitors nor by amastatin and MGTA.
(2) These data indicate that mammalian tachykinins induce the release of NCA from BBEC and that NEP modulates these effects.
(3) The nuclear masses are known as (1) the area lateralis hypothalami (ALH), (2) the nucleus entopeduncularis (nEp), (3) the nucleus semilunaris accessorius (nSA), (4) the nucleus ventromedialis hypothalami (nVmH), and (5) the posterolateral portion of the zona incerta (ZI).
(4) The effects of the neutral metalloendopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, thiorphan, and the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, captopril, on airway responses to SP5-11 were examined in order to test the hypothesis that differences in degradation of SP and SP5-11 contribute to the difference in airway responsiveness to the two peptides.
(5) These results suggest that degradation of NKA and NKB by NEP but not by ACE is an important determinant of the bronchoconstriction induced by these peptides.
(6) By cleaving and thus inactivating tachykinins released from sensory nerves, NEP limits the actions of these peptides.
(7) We gave phosphoramidon to inhibit NEP and enalapril maleate or captopril to inhibit ACE.
(8) The effects of neutral endopeptidase inhibition (NEP-I) were studied in 6 conscious sheep with heart failure (HF) induced by rapid ventricular pacing for 7 days.
(9) The present work examined the susceptibility of these novel peptides to hydrolysis by various purified exo- and endo-peptidases including endopeptidases 24.11 (NEP), 24.15, 24.16, angiotensin-converting enzyme, leucine aminopeptidase and carboxypeptidase A. NEP attacked MCH at three sites of the molecule with an apparent affinity of about 12 microM and a kcat.
(10) On the other hand, transient or enhanced expression of NEP is observed during the development of several organs such as the sensory organs, the heart and the major blood vessels, the intestine, the bones and the genital tubercle.
(11) These studies confirm the presence of neutral endopeptidase (NEP) in the nuchal ligament of the fetal calf.
(12) Regional haemodynamic responses to atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP, 0.5 nmol kg-1) or proendothelin-1 [1-38] (1.0 nmol kg-1) were assessed in the same conscious Long Evans rats before and 20 min after administration of the novel neutral endopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, SQ 28,603 (50 mg kg-1, i.v.).
(13) The activity of NEP, measured with an enzymatic fluorimetric method employing N-dansyl-D-alanyl-glycyl-L-4-nitrophenylalanyl-glycine as a synthetic substrate, was 18 times and eight times higher in the outer stripe of the medulla and inner cortex than in the outer cortex (OC).
(14) There were no significant differences in apparent volume of distribution, elimination half-life, and elimination clearance (CIe) for nEp and rEp in intact dogs.
(15) Also examined were the effects of inhibitors of neutral endopeptidase (NEP) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE).
(16) This binding was displaced in a dose-dependent manner by NEP inhibitors.
(17) Using NEP-expressing MDCK cells and episcopic fluorescence microscopy, a specific labeling was obtained with 100 nM FTI which was completely displaced by 10 microM HACBOGly, a specific and potent inhibitor of NEP.
(18) We concluded that, although covalent bonds appear to be cleaved in NEP by papain, its activity and structure are sustained by S-S bridges.
(19) To determine the distribution of NEP, a possible regulatory enzyme for the neuropeptide-induced leukocyte activation, among human leukocytes, we investigated the enzymatic activity of NEP in each cell type of human peripheral blood leukocytes.
(20) N-ethyl piperidinyl diaminodithiol (NEP-DADT), complexed with 99mTc has been developed as an agent for the measurement of brain blood flow using SPECT.