(1) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(2) The volume fraction of synthetic organelles in smooth muscle cells from the DIT of both males and females is of a highly significant difference from the volume fraction of synthetic organelles in cells of the subjacent media.
(3) Urinary excretion of intact DIT was low, being less than 1% of the administered dose of exogenous DIT within 2 days.
(4) Our data confirm the in vivo generation of extrathyroidal DIT from T4 in the rat.
(5) In contrast, 52% of the iodine administered in the form of DIT was excreted in the urine in the same time interval.
(6) Short periods of loading do not alter deiodination of L-DIT in liver or kidney at all; but lead to significant elevation of L-T4-deiodination in liver tissue.
(7) DIT may play a central role in the regulation of energy expenditure and in the etiology of certain types of obesity.
(8) DIT and BAT are controlled by hormonal action: noradrenaline appears to be the primary activator of BAT and insulin may be required for DIT and may even activate thermogenesis.
(9) The levels of MIT, DIT, T3 and T4 in the thyroid, and T3, T4 and TSH in serum, and the amount of iodine transport and synthesis of organic iodine in thyroid were determined.
(10) Higher doses or longer periods of loading cause a significant rise of L-DIT-deiodination in liver and kidney, while the L-T4-deiodination in liver is significantly decreased and in kidney significantly elevated.
(11) The secretion of gastric acid in the peptic ulcer patients were examined by the dopamine infusion test (DIT).
(12) In rats hypothyroidized with methylthiouracil (MTU), methimazol (MMI), or radiothyroidectomy, the extent of deiodination for L-diiodotyrosine (L-DIT) and L-thyroxine (L-T4) was investigated in homogenate supernatants of liver and kidney.
(13) two pentapeptides, apparently of the sequence Tyr-Asn-Asx-Lys-Gly, isolated as the DIT and MIT derivatives.
(14) There was no significant correlation between sex, age, presence of diabetes, mode of dialysis, years of chronic renal failure, years of dialysis or years of aluminum ingestion and any neurologic or neurobehavioral measurement, serum aluminum level, or DIT.
(15) The carbonyl complexes were found to be efficient hepatobiliary agents and cleared more rapidly than the corresponding 99mTcN- and 99mTc(dit)-complexes.
(16) From the results of kinetic studies and RIA measurements, the fraction of circulating T4 converted to DIT was calculated to be 3.9-4.3%.
(17) While rT3 is elevated in almost all critically ill patients, the increase in DIT is indicative of severe infection.
(18) The reaction is effectively quenched by the antioxidant, 2,6-dit-butyl-4-hydroxymethyl phenol as well as by Mn+2 (10(-5)-10(-3)M).
(19) The relative affinity of T3, T4, rT3, MIT, and DIT were in good agreement with their biological activity.
(20) Splitting off of sialic acid diminishes thenumber of phenolic groups of tyrosine, MIT, DIT and T4, which dissociate below pH 12-5.
Lit
Definition:
() of Light
() of Light
() a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(4) The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
(5) Trafalgar Square in central London was lit up by flash bulbs as part of the demonstration against photographers being unfairly targeted by police after taking photos.
(6) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
(8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(9) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
(10) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
(11) You have escape holes in the net, lit by LEDs so the fish can swim out.
(12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
(13) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(14) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
(15) Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimastigotes derived from LIT medium in the triatomine artificial urine (TAU).
(16) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
(17) Internal UN documents, marked “strictly confidential” and leaked to the Guardian, reveal how the UN’s internal complaints unit uncovered evidence the woman was abused with lit cigarettes and photographed lying on the ground.
(18) Two decades from now, the government imagines people will still be able to fly when they want (including from a third Heathrow runway), drive (but efficiently and perhaps electrically), and live in warm, well-lit (but far better insulated) homes.
(19) He has the right idea in combining old and new, like Fulgence Bienvenüe, who built the all-electric Paris Metro , yet lit his house by candles because they're beautiful.
(20) On the walls of brightly lit meeting rooms – each named after garment manufacturing zones around the city – are posters of laughing, thin, beautiful young Europeans of varying ethnic backgrounds wearing the bright, cheery, fashionable clothes of the company's brands.