(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
(2) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(3) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(4) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
(5) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(6) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
(7) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(8) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(11) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(12) PTH, an inducer of shape change, did not affect the number of gap junctions appreciably.
(13) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
(14) Since testosterone influenced both tissue stores and PDBu-stimulated secretion of LHRH and GAP, this steroid may selectively regulate biosynthesis and secretion of pro-LHRH-derived peptides through activation of the metabolic cascade involving the PKC system.
(15) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
(16) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
(17) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(18) Regions within the desmosome where the two plasma membranes converged suggested that gap junctions were a component of the desmosome-like junctions.
(19) The frequency of chromosome and chromatid gaps and chromosome deletions was significantly higher among workers than among controls, and the same was true for the number of individuals with some type of chromosome alteration.
(20) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
Gip
Definition:
(v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).
(n.) A servant. See Gyp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intravenous infusion of porcine GIP in man induces insulin release when a degree of hyperglycemia is present.
(2) The amylase mRNA was not changed by injection of GIP.
(3) To determine if a similar phenomenon occurs in subjects with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), serum glucose, insulin, C-peptide, and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) responses to three mixed test meals of varying fatty acid composition were assessed in twelve subjects with NIDDM.
(4) Although structurally related, GIP and glucagon may influence liver blood flow through different mechanisms.
(5) Pancreastatin inhibited carbachol- but not forskolin- or GIP-stimulated insulin release from Rin m 5F cells.
(6) By contrast, the N-terminal portion of GIP can be removed without seriously impairing the activity of the molecule.
(7) In contrast to Gip and G34, labeling of the 46 kDa protein (Gsp) was not influenced by light.
(8) Plasma GIP concentrations were elevated in fed but not fasted streptozotocin diabetic mice, and oral fat evoked a greater GIP response than control mice.
(9) glucose) is reduced in type 2 diabetes although GIP secretion is normal or exaggerated.
(10) The clinical and pathophysiological importance of GIP is discussed by means of various diseases (obesity, maturity-onset diabetes mellitus, duodenal ulcer disease).
(11) The effect of glucose and GIP on insulin release from the isolated perfused pancreas of the same animals was investigated to determine if TPN altered the sensitivity of the beta cell.
(12) Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) is a gastrointestinal hormone stimulated after oral nutrient ingestion, but not after intravenous nutrient administration.
(13) The GIP was subsequently cleaved from the fusion protein with alpha-thrombin.
(14) Our data indicate that there is a substantial difference in the hemodynamic responses to GIP among splanchnic organs, and suggest that GIP acts specifically on the mesenteric vasculature.
(15) Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is a forty-two amino acid hormone that stimulates the secretion of insulin from the pancreatic B-cells in the presence of elevated glucose concentrations.
(16) The objective of this study was to compare the gastrin- and gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP)-releasing actions of bombesin, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP)-27, neuromedin B, and GRP-10 in rats.
(17) The response of GIP to intragastric glucose was not significantly different between pre- and postoperative tests.
(18) We compared the effects of GIP on portal venous and hepatic arterial flow with those of glucagon in conscious dogs.
(19) The basal GIP concentrations were significantly elevated after TV.
(20) At 30 minutes a further increase in IR-GIP to supraphysiologic levels occurred.