(n.) An Arabian shrub Catha edulis) the leaves of which are used as tea by the Arabs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
(2) The identification and subsequent analysis of one mutant strain, YB2003, which carried the mutation designated kat-19, revealed that this strain was deficient in the expression of a vegetative catalase.
(3) It's only when I arrive at the cafe where we're to meet that I realise I'm not sure what Kat Banyard looks like.
(4) A Nestlé Kit Kat Chunky Collection Giant Egg was advertised at £7.49 for 10 days in January this year at Ocado, then sold on offer at £5 for 51 days.
(5) The enzyme was distributed heterogeneously between the nine brain regions studied, with the KAT-rich olfactory bulb displaying approximately five times higher activity than the cerebellum, the area with lowest KAT activity.
(6) Sponsor MBMers' good causes, namely those of Kat Petersen and Poppy McNee and Dan Hickman .
(7) Gold and silver could be between them – Jess and Kat.” Schippers became European 100m and 200m champion in Zurich in 2014 but, even then, “I still liked the heptathlon.
(8) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
(9) Previous studies with rat kidney preparations indicated that alpha-aminoadipate aminotransferase (AadAT) and kynurenine aminotransferase (KAT) activities are associated with a single protein.
(10) Throughout the exercise period, the VO2 kinetics could be appropriately described by a two-component exponential equation of the form: VO2(t) = Ya[1 - exp(-kat)] + Yb[1 - exp(-kbt)] where VO2 is net oxygen consumption and t the time from work onset.
(11) In the hippocampus, the stratum lacunosum-moleculare of Ammon's horn and the hilus contained a higher density of KAT-positive glial cells than other regions, whereas the lowest density of KAT glial cells was observed in the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus and in the stratum radiatum of CA subfields.
(12) Blackout will be organising grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights.” Backers include Fruitvale Station actor Michael B Jordan, Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, hiphop mogul Russell Simmons and erstwhile Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
(13) Thus, under pseudo-first order conditions ([AT]o, [H]o much greater than [T]o much less than [P]o), the observed thrombin inactivation rate constant (kobs) exhibited a saturable dependence on [AT]o or [H]o when [H]o much less than KT,H, reflecting a KAT,H (0.25 microM) similar to that directly determined by equilibrium binding.
(14) Kat Banyard, 30, author and co-founder of UK Feminista Kat Banyard.
(15) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(16) Moreover, KAT I and KAT II differed with regard to their sensitivity to amino acids and kinetic characteristics.
(17) "These breeders tell you they removed the cubs because the mother had no milk; I've never seen that in the wild," says Pieter Kat, an evolutionary biologist who has worked with wild lions in Kenya and Botswana.
(18) 169 (1987) 5848-5851], the sequence analysis of the cloned kat-19+ DNA fragments revealed an open reading frame that showed significant homology between the deduced amino acid sequence of this gene product and that of known eukaryotic catalases.
(19) Reprieve's legal director, Kat Craig, added: "The UK government has nowhere left to turn.
(20) Blood specimens were obtained from various categories of people, ranging from presumably healthy tuberculin-negative persons to patients with far-advanced pulmonary tuberculosis, and these specimens were submitted "blindly" for serological testing.The results showed that the KAT was less sensitive and also less specific in Kenya than it had been found in Japan by Takahashi.
Tat
Definition:
(n.) Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.
(n.) A pony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(2) We now present evidence that such a decrease in amounts of P68 could be essential for HIV-1 replication because of the presence of the Tat-responsive sequence (TAR sequence) present in the 5' untranslated region of HIV-1 mRNAs, which activates the P68 kinase.
(3) In this study we demonstrate that the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 regulatory protein Tat is associated with a significant induction in the expression of certain protein components of the extracellular matrix in glial-derived cells.
(4) In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed.
(5) The tat open reading frame (ORF) has a strong signal for translation initiation, while rev and vpu ORFs have weaker signals.
(6) Purified tat binds specifically to HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive region (TAR) RNA in gel-retardation, filter-binding, and immunoprecipitation assays.
(7) This phenomenon was observed by using wheat-germ RNA polymerase II and a series of double-stranded template polymers containing palindromic repeating motifs of 6-16 bp, with regulatory alternating purine and pyrimidine bases such as d[ATA(CG)nC].d[TAT(GC)nG], with n = 1, 3 or 6 referred to as d(GC), d(GC)3 or d(GC)6, respectively.
(8) RD-tat cell lines also showed enhanced virus production upon transfection of HIV-1 proviral DNA.
(9) A comparative study between MAR test and IBT in 142 seminal samples is presented by the authors and their concordance with TAT and SIT is also evaluated.
(10) Viral mRNA production is controlled by the tat gene, which appears to stimulate elongation by RNA polymerase II, and the rev gene, which allows the accumulation of unspliced or partially spliced mRNAs in the cytoplasm.
(11) Experiments using radioactive protein show that tat becomes localized to the nucleus after uptake and suggest that chloroquine protects tat from proteolytic degradation.
(12) To reduce the high TAT under the deficient state of ATIII, MD805, a synthetic thrombin inhibitor, was introduced to avoid further consumption of ATIII.
(13) Of 199 dogs from a brucellosis-contaminated area, 116 with negative titers in the tube agglutination test (TAT), using heat-inactivated whole B. canis cells as the antigen, were also negative in the ELISA.
(14) A psychological interview and the MHQ, Koch, Rorschach, TAT, Machover and family design psychological tests were conducted in pneumopathic patients.
(15) As TNF can increase the production of IL-1 and IL-6 and these inflammatory cytokines all enhance HIV-1 gene expression and affect the immune, vascular, and central nervous systems, the activation of TNF by Tat may be part of a complex pathway in which HIV-1 uses viral products and host factors to increase its own expression and infectivity and to induce disease.
(16) This study used transient transfection analysis to determine the DNA regions which mediate basal and insulin-sensitive transcription from the gene encoding tyrosine aminotransferase (TAT; EC 2.6.1.5).
(17) The results show that availability of dietary pyridoxine stimulates the growth of this hepatoma and, in addition, exercises a type of control over the expression of TAT activity.
(18) Induction of the rat tyrosine aminotransferase gene (TAT) with glucocorticoid hormones leads to formation of a nuclease hypersensitive site at the hormone-dependent enhancer located 2.5 kb upstream of the start site of transcription.
(19) Again, tat protected TAR RNA from RNase A cleavage at both U23 and U31.
(20) The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Tat protein is a powerful transactivator of the viral long terminal repeat (LTR).