(n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
(n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
(v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study dosages of psyllium seed husk or lignin acceptable to patients with gallstones do not appear to alter the relative amounts of cholesterol, or individual bile acids in the bile.
(2) Rats fed cellulose tended to have greater fecal bulk and lower beta-glucuronidase activity compared with rats fed no fiber and lower 7-alpha-dehydroxylase activity compared with rats fed psyllium husk.
(3) To determine the optimum dose of ispaghula husk in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and to assess the correlation, if any between the relief in patients' symptoms and the whole gut transit time, and the increase in stool weight, a two part study was carried out.
(4) In this paper the qualitative analysis of tars formed during pyrolysis of rice husks is presented, based on identification by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and interpolation of retention times on a polyaromatic hydrocarbon index scale.
(5) was compared with that to meals equivalent to these foods in terms of carbohydrate, protein, fat and fibre content, but made up of maize flour, casein, maize oil and ispaghula husk.
(6) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(7) A double-blind controlled therapeutic trial of factorial design was used to study the therapeutic effects of lorazepam, hyoscine butylbromide, and ispaghula husk in 12 randomised blocks of eight patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
(8) The home remedies tried by mothers were, isabgol husk with curd (30.55%), ghee with tea (28.70%) water boiled with mint leaves (25.92%), local ghutti (22.22%) and unripe mango juice (16.66%).
(9) But if Europe allows the ETS to hollow into a husk that is unable to meaningfully reduce emissions, it will rightly spur calls for more radical action against the international aviation industry.
(10) Feeding animals large quantities of dry hydrophilic fiber sources, such as psyllium husk or guar gum, may lead to intestinal obstruction or to other mechanical effects unrelated to the normal function of these materials in human diets.
(11) Fasting blood sugar was measured at the beginning and end of a 4-wk dietary period during which weanling rats were fed either a fibre-free diet, or a similar diet containing cellulose or ispaghula husk.
(12) Ten patients completed part 2 of the study in which ispaghula husk was given in the same dose (10 g, 20 g, and 30 g) but in a random order and with a "washout" period of one week between individual doses.
(13) No mycotoxins were detected in olive-oil destined for human consumption (6 samples) or olive-husks (3 samples) collected from oil-mills after the first pressing of olives.
(14) In separate experiments, the immune status of six matched pairs of yearling heifers from a field trial in which both parasitic gastroenteritis and husk had occurred in control animals, was tested with a single massive challenge of either Dictyocaulus viviparus or Ostertagia ostertagi.
(15) After adding the 'Husk of Isabgol' and 'aloe vera' (an indigenous plant known as ghee-guar-ka-paththa) to the diet, a marked reduction in total serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides, fasting and post prandial blood sugar level in diabetic patients, total lipids and also increase in HDL were noted.
(16) The biological value of combined meat products containing protein concentrates from seeds and husks of grape, soybean protein concentrate, protein compound from meat-bone residue, was investigated, when meat was substituted for each of the above proteins by 0,3.125, 6.25, 12.5,25,50 and 100%.
(17) Problems discussed include: uniformity, fissuring sequence, stress and plastic flow, diffusion mechanisms, temperature and other environmental factors, kernel vs. husk, controlled drying rate, chemical changes, dryer design, timing of harvest, trade-offs, reliability of data, and experimental design or approach.
(18) After the nesting material, oat husk, was changed in two of 10 communal nests the hens did not accept those two nests for the trial period of two weeks and laid elsewhere.
(19) The centre has collapsed: after acceding to Mrs Merkel's terms, Mr Papandreou's Pasok has gone from being a reliable centre-left party of government to a husk of its former self.
(20) No significant difference in the occurrence of clinical husk was observed between calves vaccinated against lung-worm disease and calves not vaccinated against the disease.
Kex
Definition:
(n.) A weed; a kecksy.
(n.) A dry husk or covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the protective protein possesses extensive sequence homology with carboxypeptidase Y (carb Y) and the KEX 1 gene product from yeast, we have used the artificial substrate N-CBZ-Phe-Leu to detect and characterize the peptidase activity of the lysosomal carboxypeptidase (carb L).
(2) To study the molecular mechanisms involved in polyprotein processing, we have transfected the yeast KEX-2 gene into mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and established a new cell line (called 2N-DK) where the KEX-2 endoprotease is permanently expressed.
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(4) The first-order rates are compared with that of a fourth variant Phe82----Gly which has been measured previously (E0 = 220 mV, kex = 0.7 s-1).
(5) While the mammalian endoproteases responsible for these cleavages are yet to be identified, this function has been unequivocally assigned in yeast to the product of the KEX-2 gene.
(6) The evidence for this cellular location is supported by measurement of intracellular and extracellular KEX-2 enzyme activity.
(7) The apparent pseudo-first-order exchange rate, kex, of the backbone amide protons and the correspondent activation enthalpies, delta H not equal to, were determined.
(8) For all other backbone amide protons in BPTI, the exchange was found to be uncorrelated and by an EX2 mechanism under all conditions of p2H and temperature where quantitative measurements could be obtained with the methods used, i.e., for kex approximately less than 5 min-1.
(9) For three variants of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c the rate constants measured by saturation transfer are wild-type (Asn52, E0 = 270 mV, kex = 0.3 s-1), Asn52----Ala (E0 = 240 mV, kex = 0.6 s-1), Asn52----Ile (E0 = 220 mV, kex = 1.0 s-1).
(10) It was found that the KEX-2 protease was unable to cleave the prepro-Lys-Arg-Pro-IL6 sequence, but that unspecific cleavage of the precursor protein had occurred.
(11) Thus, the kex phenotype does not require an alteration of the killer plasmid.--Kex1 and kex2 strains each contain near-normal levels of the 1.4 x 10(6) molecular weight double-stranded RNA, whose presence is correlated with the presence of the killer genome.
(12) The experimental study showed that KEX-I can inactivate directly the virus of Coxsackie B3, protect the heart cells in mice, prevent attack by Coxsackie B3, promote the growth of internal interferon and increase the NK cell's function to regulate immunity in experimental mice.
(13) When P2 organelles were separated in sucrose density gradients Rho1p comigrated with the Kex-2 activity, a late Golgi marker.
(14) Insulin affected both rate constants, reducing k(in) by 2.8-fold and increasing kex by 3.3-fold.
(15) The rate constants of efficient exchange interaction (kex) of spin-labelled lysozyme and the triplet probes perylene, eosine and anthracene butanoic acid with the haemoproteins were measured in microsomes and in solution by electron paramagnetic resonance and by the registration of delayed annihilation fluorescence.
(16) The look of Kex is, in part, down to Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen, a film production designer.
(17) At pH 6.0, first order rate constants for amino acid exit (kex) under steady state conditions for L-leucine, L-alanine, and L-serine were 1.1-1.3, 0.084, and 0.053 min-1, respectively.
(18) Most significantly, cleavage of the precursor to SRIF-28 was independent of the Kex 2 endoprotease since processing occurred efficiently in a kex 2 mutant strain.
(19) The clinical study was carried out with KEX-I according to a random, paired and cross-over design.
(20) Of particular clinical relevance is the [Cai] response to cardioplegia containing 16 mM [Kex]: neither group demonstrated the expected [Cai] increase in response to potassium depolarization.