(n.) An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.
Example Sentences:
(1) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(2) Analysis of urine and various organs for free amino acids also failed to detect homocyst(e)ine or the thiolactone.
(3) In the present studies, the metabolic flux through each of these pathways was quantitated in vivo by monitoring the formation of respiratory 14CO2 in mice administered L-[1-14C]- or L-[3-14C]cyst(e)ine.
(4) Taurine was long considered an end product of the metabolism of the sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and cyst(e)ine.
(5) Six thiols were assessed for their ability to increase the uptake of L-cyst(e)ine and its utilization for glutathione synthesis.
(6) Brain cortex, hippocampus, and stem samples were dissected, processed, and analyzed specifically for reduced and oxidized glutathione (GSH, GSSG) and cyst(e)ine using high performance liquid chromatography with dual electrochemical detection.
(7) In cell culture, the RPMI renal cell tumor contained unusually high uninduced levels of sperm(id)ine N1-acetyltransferase, a potential source of N1AS.
(8) Cyst(e)ine appeared to be as sensitive as lysine to reactions with lipid oxidation products.
(9) Tissue culture cell ines which have been established from human and mouse rectal and colon tumours are described.
(10) Its action does not appear to be by interference with the repressive control exerted over these enzymes by cyst(e)ine.
(11) Synthesis of the latter enzyme is repressed by growth on l-cyst(e)ine and other sulphur compounds.
(12) We suggest that one can use the urinary excretion of pseudouridine, N2,N2-dimethylguan(os)ine and 7-methylguanine to assess the whole-body turnover rates in man of rRNA, tRNA and mRNA, respectively.
(13) In addition to being oxidized to sulfate, some of the sulfite formed by enterocytes reacted with cyst(e)ine in the incubation medium to form sulfocysteine.
(14) We have studied the uptake of photopolymerized multilamellar vesicles composed of bis(1,2(methacryloyloxy)dodecanoyl)-L-alpha-phosphatidylchol ine (DPL) by mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro.
(15) In this work we have applied a kinetic scheme derived from fluorescence kinetics of pyrene-labeled phosphatidylcholine in phosphatidylcholine membrane to explain the fluorescence quenching of 1-palmitoyl-2-(10-[pyrenl-yl]-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylchol ine (PPDPC) liposomes by tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ).
(16) Such mutants have no detectable intracellular cyst(e)ine when starved of sulphur.
(17) At Hospital A, postoperative ventilation was routinely planned in 36 patients who received two intravenous lines, an arterial ine, and a Foley catheter.
(18) In conclusion, 2-mercaptoethanol-dependent INS-1 cells, as well as RINm5F cells and islets of Langerhans, display a low capacity in maintaining intracellular levels of GSH in tissue culture without extracellular thiol supplementation; 2-mercaptoethanol possibly acts by promoting cyst(e)ine transport; changes in GSH levels caused a moderate effect on the differentiated function of insulin-secreting cells.
(19) Cyst(e)ine residues were also characterized in the different components [PLP (principal proteolipid protein), DM20 and LMW (low-Mr proteins)] of the proteolipid preparation.
(20) Patients with elevated plasma homocyst(e)ine were more likely to demonstrate clinical progression of lower extremity disease and of coronary artery disease, but not of cerebral vascular disease than were patients with normal plasma homocyst(e)ine, and the rate of progression was more rapid (p = 0.002).
Nee
Definition:
(p. p., fem.) Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.
Example Sentences:
(1) His second marriage, in the mid-1950s, was to the Russian Anya Bostock (nee Anna Sisserman); they split up in 1970s.
(3) Furthermore, intraepithelial nerve fibres or NEE cells might be stretch-sensitive.
(4) He is survived by his second wife, Marilyn (nee Gasson), whom he married in 1979; by their children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Gabriel and Joshua; and by his daughter, Imogen, from his first marriage, to Daphne Brewer, which ended in divorce.
(5) Tim Pigott-Smith: a man born to play kings Read more Born in Rugby, Tim was the only child of Harry Pigott-Smith, a journalist, and his wife Margaret (nee Goodman), a keen amateur actor, and was educated at Wyggeston boys’ school in Leicester and – when his father was appointed to the editorship of the Herald in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962 – King Edward VI grammar school, where Shakespeare was a pupil.
(6) Pore annuli of NEI display complete lack of lanthanum binding, while those of NEE exhibit minor deposition of this cation.
(7) Daughter of Ebba (nee Krause) and Arthur Grasemann, she was born in South Woodford, north-east London .
(8) A small part of the NEE cells appeared to reach the luminal surface by means of a long slender process bearing specialized beaded microvilli on its apical pole.
(9) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
(10) The son of John Henry Thorpe and his wife, Ursula (nee Norton-Griffiths), Thorpe was born in Surrey into a political family.
(11) In addition, nerve terminals containing an aggregation of small clear vesicles are in close contact with the NEE cells.
(12) Electron-microscopically, the NEE cells are provided with distinctive cytoplasmic membrane-bound dense granules of variable size, which gave a positive argentaffin reaction.
(13) Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Nees in Wall) is one of the world's oldest spices.
(14) Ben was the son of Frederick, a banker, and his wife Josephine (nee De Gersdorff); 51 relatives went to Harvard , as did he himself.
(15) She was born in Oxford, daughter of Sidney, a tax inspector, and Dorothy (nee Hone).
(16) However, Nee said authorities appeared to be “using many of the same abusive tactics that they have used in other cases in order to silence [critics] such as releasing people into fake freedom ... [and] harassing and controlling family members.” Nee said he was unconvinced by Zhao’s online posts on Weibo, China’s Twitter, in which she claimed to regret her actions.
(17) The fact that fibrillation potentials, seen on NEE, are the most sensitive indicator of motor axon loss, is noted, as is the fact that they do not appear until some 3 weeks following nerve injury.
(18) Using the method of Fernandez Pascual, some NEE cells were found to be argyrophilic.
(19) Alpha-1 adrenoceptor-mediated renal vasoconstriction may affect the evaluation of neural NE release by NEE when high-frequency RNS is applied during inhibition of the alpha-2 adrenoceptor-mediated mechanism.
(20) By the time we got there, he had already been taken away.” William Nee, Amnesty International’s China researcher, said his group was monitoring the “very worrying” situation in Zhejiang.