(v. t.) To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.
(v. i.) To be misty; to drizzle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(2) Incubation of microsomes with CDP-DAG of different fatty acid composition results in quantitative and qualitative differences in lysoPI formation.
(3) We now report that two synthetic diacylglycerols (DAG) replicate the stimulatory and inhibitory effects of TPA on frog skin.
(4) The distribution of PKC returned to control values by 24 h. High glucose did not stimulate phosphoinositide hydrolysis, as evidenced by the absence of an increase in the water-soluble inositol phosphates, indicating that DAG was not generated through the action of a phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C. Cells treated with the cell-permeable DAG analogue 1-oleoyl-2-acetyl glycerol to activate PKC displayed approximately two-fold increases of fibronectin, laminin, and type IV collagen mRNA levels after normalization against actin.
(5) We observed a 30-45% increase in DAG in rat gastrocnemius and diaphragm muscles, 5-15 min after intramuscular or intravenous injections of 1-3 U of insulin per rat, doses which would be expected to activate insulin receptors more fully.
(6) Concomitantly, an increase of inositol phosphates and diacylglycerol (DAG) production was observed.
(7) The accumulation of [14C]C20:4-DAG (lower in ET than in saline-infused rats) was paralleled by a decrease in phosphatidylinositol (PI) labelling, whereas phosphatidic acid showed a transient increase by 5 min in saline- but not in ET-infused rats.
(8) To determine the role of the DAG produced upon bombesin stimulation, we examined the effects of another activator of protein kinase C, the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA).
(9) It is concluded that carbachol increases [Ca2+]i by facilitating Ca2+ entry through L-type Ca2+ channels via a 1,2-diacylglycerol (DAG)-protein kinase C (PKC)-dependent pathway while quisqualate mobilizes Ca2+ from inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3)-sensitive stores.
(10) In order to characterize the properties of the glyceroglycolipid membranes, ESR spectroscopic studies were carried out with an acyl spin-labeled galactosyl ceramide (SL-GC) or a headgroup spin-labeled phospholipid (SL-6-DPPA) in 1,2-dipalmitoyl[beta-cellobiosyl-(1'---3)]glycerol (Cel-DAG) liposomal membranes.
(11) The E. coli dgkA locus which contains the coding sequences for DAG kinase was subcloned into an eukaryotic expression vector, pMT2.
(12) The mean residence time for pharmacologically active molecules in the body was six times shorter for DAG (1.9 hr) than for DBD (11.4 hr).
(13) These data suggest that PKC is a mediator in the generation of DAG.
(14) These results suggest that DAG accumulation is involved in the potentiating effect of A23187 on CCh-stimulated amylase secretion.
(15) It is concluded that insulin-dependent PDH activation, PIG hydrolysis, and IG and DAG generation are mediated by the wild-type but not by the mutated insulin receptor of Val996.
(16) Since most alloantibodies detected only by 2SP-IAT or LISS-DAG were of doubtful clinical significance, and these techniques produced a high number of unwanted positive reactivities, we conclude that 2SP-IAT and LISS-DAG are not appropriate for the pretransfusion screening for unexpected antibodies.
(17) 261, 8597-8600), lipase from Rhizopus arrhizus selectively degraded the 1-acyl-containing species (DAG), but the ether lipid (EAG) was resistant and was identified and quantified after thin layer chromatography separation.
(18) 1-Oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol, a synthetic DAG analog, stimulated endothelial cell DNA synthesis in a concentration-dependent manner.
(19) Whereas DPG and DS are stable at physiological pH, DAG is unstable, undergoing hydrolysis (regeneration of DF) and rearrangement (intramolecular acyl migration to the 2-, 3- and 4-O-acyl-positional isomers).
(20) Addition of PRL to hepatocyte cultures significantly increased [3H]-glycerol incorporation into DAG within 5 minutes which was followed by a loss of cytosolic PKC activity by 10 minutes.
Dung
Definition:
() of Ding
(n.) The excrement of an animal.
(v. t.) To manure with dung.
(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
(4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
(5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
(6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
(7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
(8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
(9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
(10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
(13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
(15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
(16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
(17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
(18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
(19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
(20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.