What's the difference between dactyl and lactyl?

Dactyl


Definition:

  • (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
  • (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.
  • (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis--spina ventosa--in a 5 year-old girl from a French upper class family.
  • (2) ), contraction of the dactyl opener muscle may persist for many minutes in the complete absence of action potentials in the excitor nerve or muscle.
  • (3) The opener muscle of the dactyl in the first leg of the crayfish was used to examine the action of the drug on the glutamate response.
  • (4) Painful crisis was the initial manifestation in 77% of the children; other symptoms included dactylitis (14%) and pneumococcal septicemia and acute splenic sequestration (4% each).
  • (5) Oxystomatous crabs of the subfamily Calappinae, particularly the genus Calappa, possess a large tooth on the dactyl and a pair of protuberances on the propodus of the right cheliped.
  • (6) Painful crises and dactylitis are not uncommon in Indian patients but chronic leg ulceration is rare.
  • (7) Although the neurotoxicity of this antibiotic is well documented, the child's pain was initially considered to be a form of sickle-cell dactylitis.
  • (8) In the dactyl opener muscle, on the contrary, most of the attenuation of excitatory junctional potentials is achieved presynaptically, though equally large postjunctional conductance changes are also seen (Dudel and Kuffler, 1961).
  • (9) Another group of receptors is distributed throughout more proximal regions of the dactyl where the cuticle is completely calcified.
  • (10) By the term sarcoid dactylitis we mean sarcoid involvement of the bone and soft tissue of the fingers.
  • (11) Mechanical bending of the dactyl or electrical stimulation of dactyl nerves in which force-sensitive mechanoreceptors were recorded produced strong tonic excitation of motors neurons to the levator muscles of the same leg.
  • (12) A 30 year old Pakistani female patient with osteomalacia and coeliac disease presenting as an isolated dactylitis is reported.
  • (13) A low RDW was associated with higher weight and less frequent dactylitis, painful crisis, acute chest syndrome, acute splenic sequestration, and hospital admissions.
  • (14) Three of the six patients developed dactylitis during the course of chronic sarcoid.
  • (15) One infant had signs of sepsis and dactylitis involving several fingers and toes.
  • (16) This paper examines the responses and reflex effects of force-sensitive mechanoreceptors of the most distal leg segment, the dactyl, of the leg of the crab, Carcinus maenas.
  • (17) The effects of avermectin on a crayfish nerve cell (stretch receptor neuron) were compared with those on a muscle (dactyl abductor).
  • (18) Lesions of only the taste receptors abolished the dactyl clasping response, a result demonstrating that such receptors are necessary to elicit this response.
  • (19) However, in the other three patients dactylitis was the presenting feature of sarcoidosis, and none of these patients had evidence of chronic fibrotic sarcoid elsewhere.
  • (20) Salmonella dactylitis was the commonest presentation of osteomyelitis in the young child.

Lactyl


Definition:

  • (n.) An organic residue or radical derived from lactic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oxidation of valine to propionyl-coenzyme A (CoA), as it occurs in animal tissues, followed by the oxidation of propionyl-CoA to acrylyl-CoA, lactyl-CoA, and pyruvate, would account for the isotope data.
  • (2) On the other hand, when peptidoglycan labelled with meso-diamino[(14)C]pimelic acid was first hydrolysed in 0.1m-HCl at 60 degrees C for 2h and then subjected to alkaline conditions, radioactive lactyl-peptides were eliminated.
  • (3) Hydration of acrylyl-CoA to lactyl-CoA requires Mg2+ and catalytic quantities of ATP.
  • (4) Compound 17 is quantitatively converted to anthranilate on reincubation with enzyme, but at a 1.3-10-fold lower Vmax than starting lactyl substrate 14 under the conditions investigated; the basis for this kinetic variation is not yet determined.
  • (5) Substrate studies for the corn glyoxalase II show, among possible substrates tested, that S-D-lactyl-glutathione is the preferred substrate.
  • (6) Glycollyl- and alpha-lactyl adducts, however, decay to oxidized enzyme with half-lives in the order of minutes.
  • (7) Administration of N-benzyl-N-lactyl dithiocarbamate (BLDTC) to mice after chronic cadmium (Cd) administration evoked a prompt, dose-dependent reduction of the whole body burden; 75% of the retained Cd was mobilized and excreted after 20 i.p.
  • (8) The structure of PF1022A was determined to be cyclo(D-lactyl-L-N-methylleucyl-D-3-phenyllactyl-L-N-meth ylleucyl-D-lactyl-L-N- methylleucyl-D-3-phenyllactyl-L-N-methylleucyl) by spectroscopic analyses and chemical studies.
  • (9) Formation of lactyl-coenzyme A and pyruvyl-coenzyme A from lactic acid by Escherichia coli.
  • (10) The mechanism of the inhibitory effect of N1-(2-lactyl)-N2-(isonicotinoyl)hydrazine was investigated and the rate equation for enzymatic hydrolysis of NAD in the presence of inhibitor is calculated.
  • (11) A new mechanism for the dehydration of lactyl-CoA is proposed.
  • (12) Both preparations exhibited similar activities towards (R)-lactyl-CoA as well as towards (R)-2-hydroxybutyryl-CoA, the latter being the superior substrate.
  • (13) The distance between the D-lactyl group and the side-chain of the diamino acid is about 1.5 nm.
  • (14) A new efficient inhibitor of rabbit heart muscle NAD-glycohydrolase (I50 = 10(-3) M)--N1-(2-lactyl)-N2-(isonicotinoy)hydrazine, inducing uncompetitive inhibition of hydrolysis of NAD is found.
  • (15) PDC stabilizes the reactant state preceding decarboxylation (presumably alpha-lactyl-TDP) by 27 kJ mol-1 and the transition state for decarboxylation by 68 kJ mol-1.
  • (16) Lactyl coenzyme A dehydrase activity was below the limits of the assay technique in many samples from the alfalfa hay diet, and increased to relatively high levels when concentrates were fed.
  • (17) In this respect the enzyme differs from the related 2-hydroxyglutaryl-CoA dehydratase from Acidaminococcus fermentans and lactyl-CoA dehydratase from Clostridium propionicum both of which are composed of only two subunits with sizes comparable to those of alpha and beta but require an additional protein for activity.
  • (18) Lactyl lactate was observed in many patients; succinyl lactate only a few times and only together with lactyl lactate.
  • (19) Modifications in the substituents at C-3 [enolpyruyl ether, (R)- or (S)-lactyl ether, glycolyl ether] or C-4 (O-methyl) of chorismate lead to alternate substrates.
  • (20) Sequential polydepsipeptides containing both peptide and ester bonds, poly[(L-alanyl)n-gamma-ethyl L-glutamyl-L-lactyl] (n = 0, 1, 2, and 3) (poly[(Ala)n-Glu(OEt)-Lac]), were prepared for application as biodegradable carriers for drug delivery systems.

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