(n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
(n.) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
(n.) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a tropomyosin-coupled affinity column, we have demonstrated a direct association between the chymotryptic 35 kDa fragment of h-caldesmon, which is located at the C-terminal of the parent molecule, and gizzard tropomyosin.
(2) Several studies of vinculin-binding proteins have described a 190 kDa protein in chicken gizzard smooth muscle which binds radioiodinated vinculin.
(3) Ca-activated hydrolysis of ATP catalyzed by gizzard myosin B proceeded at a reduced rate after removal of Ca2+ (by adding EGTA), whereas that catalyzed by a combination of actin, gizzard myosin, and gizzard NTM proceeded at the same rate even after removal of Ca2+.
(4) In Western blot experiments, CGA7 detected actin from chicken gizzard and monkey ileum, but not skeletal muscle or fibroblast actin.
(5) We also show here for the first time that the S1-S2 junction in gizzard myosin can be cleaved by chymotrypsin and that this cleavage (observed in papain-produced S1 devoid of the regulatory light chain) is also temperature-dependent but insensitive to nucleotides and actin.
(6) Arginine residues of gizzard myosin are necessary for the maintenance of the ATPase activity of this contractile protein.
(7) Using thiophosphorylated gizzard myosin, Sherry et al.
(8) One method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards shot by hunters (n = 2,859) and the other method consisted of examination of gizzards from mallards caught in duck traps (n = 865).
(9) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(10) These calpastatins possessed the same inhibition properties when assayed with chicken gizzard calpains.
(11) Caldesmon, a major actin- and calmodulin-binding protein, has been identified in diverse bovine tissues, including smooth and striated muscles and various nonmuscle tissues, by denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of tissue homogenates and immunoblotting using rabbit anti-chicken gizzard caldesmon.
(12) Significant lesions are confined to the proventriculus which becomes inflamed, dilated and ulcerated, and loses its normal architecture, and to the gizzard in which there are degenerative changes in the koilin layer.
(13) The enzyme purified from human platelets phosphorylates the 20 000-dalton light chain of mouse fibroblast and chicken gizzard myosin, but does not phosphorylate human skeletal and cardiac myosin.
(14) An investigation was conducted on the histology and chemical nature of the inner lining of the gizzard of a fish-eating bird Pelecanus phillippensis.
(15) The association constant of the arterial enzyme to F-actin (5.1 X 10(6) M-1) was much larger than that of the gizzard enzyme (9.0 X 10(5) M-1) but the maximum binding was the same (1 enzyme per 12-13 actins).
(16) We investigated the presence of dystrophin in gizzard smooth muscle by immunofluorescence assay, immunoblot detection and an immunogold electron microscopy technique.
(17) CB-a encompasses the COOH-terminal segment of residues 659-756, according to the sequence of adult chicken gizzard caldesmon (Bryan, J., Imai, M., Lee, R., Moore, P., Cook, R.G., and Lin, W.G.
(18) The results presented here suggest the participation of the 18 kDa peptide in the nucleotide binding domain of gizzard myosin.
(19) Leaves collected from the gizzard were identified as coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia).
(20) The only difference we observed was that the Ca- and EDTA-ATPase activities of gizzard myosin were, as reported by other investigators, approximately one-half to one-third of those of skeletal myosin, although the pH-activity profiles for the ATPase of gizzard myosin was essentially the same as that of skeletal myosin.
Grit
Definition:
(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
(n.) The coarse part of meal.
(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(2) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
(3) A lesser amount of toxin was produced on rice, but none was detected in wheat incubated at 20 C. The amount of toxin measured in white corn grits declined as the incubation temperature was raised to 20, 25, and 32 C.
(4) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(5) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(6) The effect of different modes of the hydrothermal treatment of buckwheat and of the grit cooking on a change in the composition of sterols and phospholipids was investigated.
(7) Chrysler aired a commercial during the Super Bowl declaring its cars were “imported from Detroit,” playing upon the city’s grit and determination to sell cars we barely made.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(10) The diamond fraise is a more exacting instrument and with the recent introduction of the extra-coarse grit diamond fraise, the instrument is as abrasive as the standard wire brush.
(11) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(12) There is still a grit to the brand but it’s been refined, in a natural kind of a way, because now I’m 31, not 21, so there are things I didn’t like before that I like now; things I liked before and now want a better version of.
(13) Sixteen cured samples of each were initially finished with 600-grit paper and then abraded by medium-grit wheels for 30,000 cycles.
(14) We're told that Cameron wanted to create a highly political Thatcher-style policy unit to provide intellectual grit and better communication.
(15) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(16) Immediately before being bonded, the amalgam surfaces were finished flat on 600-grit paper.
(17) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(18) Data are presented for three different grades (400, 500 and 600 grit) of commercially available emory paper and three samples of osteoarthritic femoral head articular cartilage, which were visually assessed as having smooth, intermediate and rough surfaces, respectively.
(19) Set in recession-hit small town America, Gone Girl is a mystery of grit and steel.
(20) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.