(n.) The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.
Example Sentences:
(1) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(2) The gluten-free diet failed to improve the neurologic disability except in 1 patient.
(3) Four patients with coeliac disease, who had shown complete mucosal recovery after prolonged treatment with a strict gluten-free diet, volunteered to consume oats in addition to their gluten-free diet for a period of one month and were studied by jejunal biopsy before and after the experimental period.
(4) Onset of disease was positively correlated to the duration of breast-feeding and not related to the age at gluten introduction.
(5) Neither the non-restricted diet nor the gluten-free diet had any effect on gastric morphology, the ability to secrete gastric acid, serum gastrin levels, or the frequency or titres of circulating parietal cell antibodies.
(6) A report by Mintel found 15% of households were avoiding gluten and wheat – more than half because they believed it was part of a healthy diet.
(7) In 2011, a study of people with irritable bowel syndrome found that subjects felt better when they ate a gluten-free diet .
(8) It has been shown that GGT activity in the duodenal biopsy homogenates of the children with coeliac disease (n-10) in remission (1 to 3 years of gluten-free diet) is lower than in those with other gastrointestinal tract diseases (n-6).
(9) We conclude that 1) there is a significant improvement in clinical disease activity on an elemental diet, independent of gluten administration, 2) small bowel morphology improves rapidly on an elemental diet, and 3) complement deposition but neither IgA deposition nor circulating antibody levels correlate with gluten intake.
(10) Three children had normal mucosal appearance after 58 to 73 months on normal diets, one of whom showed temporary mucosal abnormalities, another having occasionally low enzymes, in both suggesting underlying gluten sensitivity.
(11) The presence of anti-GL pIgA in serum seems related to chronic exposure to gluten of CD patients with a flat intestinal mucosa.
(12) The absence of rejection in gluten-fed rats may be explained by an impaired cellular immune response due to protein malnutrition.
(13) Coeliac disease is a primary malabsorption syndrome, whose gastrointestinal symptomatology regresses following a gluten-free diet.
(14) Features suggestive of a latent gluten-sensitive enteropathy were found in one of the other six DH patients; he developed disaccharidase deficiencies and villus atrophy when 20 g gluten was added to his usual gluten-containing diet.
(15) In contrast, none of 16 patients with enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma had raised levels of alpha gliadin antibody, and treatment with a gluten free diet resulted in histological improvement in one and transient clinical improvement in six patients.
(16) Determination of plasma enteroglucagon may facilitate the control of the dietary adherence during gluten-free diet and may in some children indicate mucosal relapse during gluten challenge.
(17) The changes in the quantity of protein and energy consumed by the rats, which were brought about by the addition of the essential limiting amino acids and groups of essential amino acids to gluten, casein, and zein, were not linearly related to alterations in the total plasma amino acid concentrations or to the accumulation of the added amino acids in the blood plasma.
(18) Wet corn gluten feed was fed at 0 (control), 10, 20, and 30% of the total ration DM.
(19) We concluded that 82.4% of patients had hyposplenic changes and that there was a non significant tendency to improve such changes by a strict adherence to gluten-free diet.
(20) N balance was negative during the preliminary period when no infusion was given; infusion of casein or gluten increased the daily N retention to 5-15 g. 3.
Glutes
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I was a bit worried because in the warm-up my hamstring and my glutes weren’t right and I thought ‘here we go again, I’ve hurt my hamstring’.
(2) The enigmatic Lapierre has battled leg injuries for several years and again felt pain in his hamstring and glutes during the warm-up on Tuesday night.
(3) But if popping glute muscles not corks is de rigueur right now, I suggest we all get on board.
(4) It basically implies the stronger woman has to go in “man one” position because I’m quite glute dominant, shall we say.” At the London Olympics Varnish competed with Victoria Pendleton in the team sprint but the pair were disqualified.