(n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
(n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
(n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
(n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
(n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
(n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
Example Sentences:
(1) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(2) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(3) GAD activity appeared in mutant spores after germination and increased to levels comparable to parent spores after 9 min of germination.
(4) In situ hybridization in normal visual cortex revealed a complex sublaminar organization of GAD-expressing cells within layers IVC and VI and a distribution of CaM II kinase alpha-expressing cells that was greatest in layers II, III, IVB, and VI.
(5) Neurogenesis of GABAergic neurons in the rat area dentata was studied combining [3H]thymidine autoradiography with immunostaining for glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) synthesizing enzyme.
(6) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(7) The hippocampal cell counts showed an increase in GAD-immunoreactive somata visualized on the fourth postischemic day.
(8) The postnatal maturation of the GABAergic innervation of the rat inferior olive was studied with an antiserum to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the GABA-synthesizing enzyme.
(9) In contrast, only modest alterations in GABA-immunoreactivity and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activity were observed in the same region.
(10) Approximately 25% of the neurons in the IC in SD rat are GAD-positive, while about 35% of the neurons in the GEPR are GAD-positive.
(11) The oxidation reaction ends in a mixture composed largely of oxidized GAD species.
(12) Although their numbers are greatest in the polymorph region of the fascia dentata (FD) and in the principal cell layers stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum granulosum (SG), GAD immunoreactive (GAD-IR) cells are numerous in other strata that contain mostly dendrites and scattered cells.
(13) The methods and chemicals utilized were the same as those used and reported by Gad et al.
(14) However, the administration of thyroxine markedly increased CNPase activity in normal rats, whereas in hypothyroid rats the effect on both CNPase and GAD was also significant.
(15) No change in parameters of GABAergic activity, namely the glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activity and high affinity GABA uptake, were observed in any of the structures examined.
(16) None of the drug treatments altered nigral GAD activity when examined after 1, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months administration.
(17) Addition of alkali to the culture media results in decrease of cell GAD activity, whereas increase of enzyme level occurs only in cells growing in unbuffered media.
(18) Vibratome sections of rat substantia nigra (SN) topically injected with colchicine were processed for glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) immunocytochemistry to reveal GABAergic neurons using electronmicroscopic procedures.
(19) GAD and ChAT omnipresence may indicate constant GABAergic HCII and its cholinergic efferent synapses, their raised content, appearance of GABA-containing HCI and related cholinergic boutons in higher vertebrates.
(20) Interestingly, the beta-galactosidase-GAD fusion protein encoded by lambda GAD is enzymatically active, catalyzing the conversion of glutamate to CO2 and GABA.
Gauntlet
Definition:
(n.) See Gantlet.
(n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
(n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.
(n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain threw down the gauntlet to donors on Monday by announcing that it would commit £1bn to replenish the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria on condition that other countries agreed to follow suit.
(2) Draghi threw down the gauntlet to fiscal policymakers, arguing for infrastructure spending while lowering the ECB’s own growth forecasts,” said Cavalla.
(3) It was a gauntlet that had nearly broken them by February but had them battle-hardened for the challenges ahead.
(4) "The rich countries of this world have thrown down the gauntlet to the poorest.
(5) Juncker voiced resentment that his entire team of 28 commissioners was being put on the spot by the censure motion, throwing down the gauntlet to the far right.
(6) Convoys that try to get out of here must run the gauntlet of taunting Christian mobs.
(7) He throws down the gauntlet to directors and actors alike to make it anything other than that.
(8) In 10 subjects, a comparison has been made between a below-elbow plaster, a moulded plaster gauntlet and an above-elbow plaster.
(9) Imagine showing up to work just to run the gauntlet of hundreds of people telling you how worthless you are.
(10) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(11) Gauntlet thrown there, Mr Android and Mr Windows 8.
(12) Its chair Maria Millerpromised she would "throw down the gauntlet to companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter".
(13) The Coalition is banking on Labor’s support to get its national security legislation passed rather than having to run the gauntlet of the senate crossbench.
(14) Emboldened by the ratings, Tsipras threw down the gauntlet, taunting his opponents to go ahead with the formation of a government.
(15) The prime minister threw down the gauntlet to the Senate crossbench declaring “the time for games is over”, saying three weeks was ample time for senators to consider and pass the bills reconstituting the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and regulating registered organisations.
(16) It is a poor country, but here we have a government that is throwing down the gauntlet to the rich, highly polluting countries."
(17) "I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
(18) The apparent high Km values in slices were probably due to depletion of the GABA concentration in the extracellular fluid as the exogenous GABA ran the gauntlet of competing uptake sites on its way to sites deep within the slice, thereby bringing about a requirement for higher GABA concentrations in the incubation medium in order to maintain the internal GABA levels at the "Km level."
(19) "I think Andrew Lansley has really thrown down the gauntlet to us.
(20) Liberal backbencher Russell Broadbent has thrown down the gauntlet to his own side of politics by labelling the indefinite detention of asylum seeker children “unacceptable”.