(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.
Gyp
Definition:
(n.) A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
Example Sentences:
(1) This part of the protein sequence contains 5 direct repeats with the motif GYP (P)Q(P).
(2) Each aryl-hydrazones of the amides of mesoxalic-acid-seminitril ant that ones of the mesoxalic-acid-diethylester are ineffective on Trichophyton gyps.
(3) From the author's results it can be concluded that some compounds from the series of the aryl-hydrazones of mesoxalic-acid-seminitril-esters exert a strong fungistatic effect on Trichophyton gyps.
(4) Not a compound of the investigated series exerts any fungistatic effect on fungi-strains other then Trichophyton gyps.
(5) The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) showed mean concentrations of glucose lower than those of most of the other species.
(6) Ketamine hydrochloride was successfully used at a dosage rate ranging from 7.5-28.8 mg kg-1 to immobilise Cape vultures Gyps coprotheres (n = 7).
(7) The primary structures of the hemoglobins Hb A, Hb A', Hb D and Hb D' of Rüppell's Griffon (Gyps rueppellii), which can fly as high as 11,300 m, are presented.
(8) Christopher Walken will play Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo, the mobster that cast a shadow over the boys' doo-wopping glory.
(9) Only a chromosomal fragment hybridized to the same gyp probes when both chromosomal and plasmid DNAs from the low-GV-producing halobacterial wild-type strains SB3 and GN101 were examined.
(10) Functional characteristics of the stripped composite hemoglobins (Hbs) of the vultures Gyps rueppellii and Aegypius monachus that can fly at extremely high altitudes, and of component Hbs of G. rueppellii are reported, in relation to influences of pH, temperature and inositol hexaphosphate.
(11) The glycophorin locus (GYP) on the long arm of chromosome 4 encodes antigens of the MNSs blood group system and displays considerable allelic variation among human populations.
(12) The digestive tract of the whiteback vulture (Gyps africanus) is described.
(13) The karyotypes of the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus), Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix), and griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) were studied with a variety of banding techniques.
(14) Those aryl-hydrazones of the mesoxalic-acid-seminitrilesters, which proved to be most effective on Trichophyton gyps.