What's the difference between gorse and spiny?

Gorse


Definition:

  • (n.) Furze. See Furze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.
  • (2) Freud's exceptional ability to convey tactile information is evident in early drawings, especially those of gorse sprigs, a dead heron and a bearded Christian Bérard in a dressing gown.
  • (3) The route, from Chilworth station, starts by crossing a strange area of wild and rather forbidding scrub and gorse, but soon gives way to gentle pastures, small woods and cosy commuter villages.
  • (4) Cryostat sections of rat descending colon were studied by fluorescence microscopy after exposure to conjugates of fluorescein isothicoyanate with lectins from Glycine max (soybean), Triticum vulgaris (wheat germ), Ricinus communis (castor bean), Ulex europaeus, (gorse), Dolichos biflorus (horse gram) and Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin A) (Jack bean).
  • (5) From the seeds of the gorse, Ulex europaeus and of the broom, Sarothamnus scoparius L-fucosyl-specific lectins were isolated by affinity chromatography on L-fucosyl-epoxy-Sepharose.
  • (6) "People keep rushing out of their houses, hands on their heads in disbelief asking me if I've heard the news," said the 32-year-old as she delivered letters in Gorse Hill.
  • (7) The gorse lectin bound to a 220 000 component in B-cells which was not labeled in T-cells.
  • (8) A varying staining pattern was found with lectins from castor bean (RCA I), soy bean (SBA) and gorse (UEA I) indicating a heterogeneity of the tumor cell population.
  • (9) Neither Gorse, RCA II nor PNA had any detectable inhibitory effects on macrocyst development leaving the appearance of increased PNA receptors at the giant cell surface as an enigma.
  • (10) The following lectins were used: wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), horseshoe crab agglutinin (LPA), gorse agglutinin (UEA I), peanut agglutinin (PNA), soybean agglutinin (SBA), and horse gram agglutinin (DBA).
  • (11) The membrane components of equine, porcine and ovine erythrocytes were separated by sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequently incubated with the radioiodinated lectins from lentils (LCH), castorbeans (RCA), Phaseolus beans (L-PHA), gorse seeds (UEH-F) and from vineyard snails (HPA).
  • (12) Plockton coral beach Photograph: Alamy Distance 1 ¼ miles Start Plockton, grid ref: NG789329 Further information and maps There is something truly magical about emerging through a thicket of trees and gorse onto a hidden white sandy beach strewn with seaweed and rockpools.
  • (13) Bracken, gorse and dry moorland grass appear to be aflame.
  • (14) Our Jeep bounces between boulders and dust-covered gorse bushes before beginning a bone-jolting descent from the high ridge into a deep valley.
  • (15) Executive Principal The Gorse Academics Trust, Leeds.
  • (16) Concanavalin A (Con A), wheatgerm agglutinin (WGA), succinylated WGA (s-WGA) and agglutinin from gorse (UEA I) stained the cytoplasm of most germ cells as well as the spermatid acrosome.
  • (17) In animals and healthy humans the alcaloid of the gorse sparteine sulphate has been reported not to cause those side effects.
  • (18) In Worcester, once regarded as a byword for comfortable middle England and home to the sought-after voter demographic “ Worcester Woman ”, 23% of children overall are classed as in poverty, though in one council ward, Gorse Hill, this rises to 44%.
  • (19) No consistent differences could be detected in the electrophoretic patterns of 1 degree and 2 degrees tumour using RCA-60 or gorse.
  • (20) The mini hedges don’t disappoint – we take the long downhill Cow Path, lined with hawthorn and gorse which have entwined to form a low arch over the path.

Spiny


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
  • (a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.
  • (a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
  • (n.) See Spinny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results suggest that: (1) catecholaminergic (mainly dopaminergic) and prefrontal cortical terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi dually synapse on common spiny neurons; and (2) dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area receive monosynaptic input from prefrontal cortical afferents.
  • (2) The responses of a population of 30 olfactory receptor cells from spiny lobsters to 8 behaviorally relevant complex types of stimuli at 0.005, 0.05 and 0.5 mM were analyzed using multidimensional scaling to evaluate their potential for coding quality and intensity.
  • (3) Extracellular responses to complex biologically relevant stimuli were recorded from 30 primary olfactory cells from excised antennules of spiny lobsters.
  • (4) Earlier studies identified purinergic chemoreceptors in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
  • (5) We speculate that in the adult neostriatum, the protein may be important in the remodeling of synapses onto medium spiny neurons that involve, in part, the corticostriatal pathway.
  • (6) Tissue from the digitiform rectal gland of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, was fixed briefly by formaldehyde perfusion and studied for the specificity and localization of p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (NPP'ase) activity.
  • (7) Type 2 multipolar cells are large neurons endowed with numerous primary spiny dendrites constituting a wide round dendritic field and with a thick axon.
  • (8) Spiny seahorse lives among a rare marine plant called eelgrass, which only grows in shallow sheltered seas in south-west England.
  • (9) The axon of the spiny type II neuron is long and has collaterals which are poorly arborized in comparison to those of spiny type I cells.
  • (10) Neurons of medium size with spine-rich dendrites (spiny type I) are the most frequent type.
  • (11) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
  • (12) The external surface of the hypostome possesses cnidocils, possibly sensory hairs, and small spiny protrusions surrounding the mouth; the internal surface has cylindrical microvilli, free flagella and adherent flagella.
  • (13) Finally, they are at variance with the classical concept which subdivides cortical neurons into projection neurons (pyramidal and spiny stellate) and interneurons (non-pyramidal, local circuit neurons).
  • (14) Leishmania braziliensis panamensis has been isolated in culture from one spiny-pocket mouse (Heteromys dermarestianus) out of 43 examined, proving that rodents of this genus can be reservoirs of Leishmania of the braziliensis complex as well as of mexicana in Latin America.
  • (15) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
  • (16) The naturally occurring dynamics of presynaptic axon terminals were investigated in the dentate gyrus and stratum lucidum of the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) during maturation, adulthood and aging.
  • (17) Light and electron microscopy showed intense and extensive labeling of immunoreactive calbindin-D28k in the cell bodies, dendrites, and spines of medium-sized neostriatal spiny neurons and in their axon terminals which end in the globus pallidus.
  • (18) The SFGS was seen to contain pyramidal neurons with spiny dendrites in the SM, together with fusiform, multipolar and horizontal neurons.
  • (19) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
  • (20) This is a report of experiments which provide evidence in support of the existence of an electric sense in the echidna, or spiny anteater Tachyglossus aculeatus.