(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.
Gypsy
Definition:
(n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
(n.) The language used by the gypsies.
(n.) A dark-complexioned person.
(n.) A cunning or crafty person
(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
(v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(3) A third clone hybridized to at least 17 sites on the chromosomes indicating the presence of repetitive sequences in the gypsy flanking DNA.
(4) She also warned over increasing stigma being shown toward Gypsies, Travellers and Roma struggling to find accommodation.
(5) In 2012-13, 12% of prisoners at HMP Elmley, Kent, 11% at HMP Gloucester and 10% at HMP Winchester identified themselves as being Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.
(6) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(7) In the other, unstable mutator strain (MS) which is derived from SS, the gypsy copy number and the frequency of its transposition are greatly increased.
(8) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
(9) These three uncommon features of the gypsy promoter may be characteristic of a subset of pol II promoters, exemplified by certain retrotransposons and developmental genes of Drosophila and by Tdt, the mouse terminal deoxynucleotidyl-transferase (TdT) gene.
(10) His own favourite among his books published was The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997), about his grandfather, John Sampson.
(11) We have studied the HLA-class I and class II antigen distribution in a sample of 75 Spanish Gypsies and 74 Spanish non-Gypsies by serology, restriction fragment length polymorphism, and protein chain reaction and hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes.
(12) The patients were assigned to one of two groups depending on their ethnic origin - Gypsy or non-Gypsy.
(13) Also unlike most pol II promoters, the gypsy promoter, which lacks a TATA motif, was found to have an essential sequence at the transcription initiation site, mutation of which abolishes transcription.
(14) Aldehyde dehydrogenase I isozyme deficiency was found in four persons including two gypsies.
(15) • Gîtes (sleeping 4-7 from €450 a week, 020-3603 1160, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Croas Men farm, near Morlaix Accommodation options at this unusual campsite include ridge tents and a gypsy caravan but the best option for families is La Maisonnette, a simple wooden house overlooking a donkey meadow.
(16) The TEs that were observed generally exhibited heterogeneous distributions, with the exception of F, gypsy and 412 which were ubiquitous, and 297, G, Sancho 2, hobo and FB which were not detected.
(17) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
(18) Only by reaching a very old age no old gypsy can reach an important position in his society.
(19) According to Trevor Phillips , former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for Gypsies and Travellers "Great Britain is still like the American Deep South for black people in the 1950s.
(20) His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.