What's the difference between kindled and scorched?
Kindled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Kindle
Example Sentences:
(1) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(2) For the purpose of contributing methodologically to experimental research on epilepsy, we investigated whether a difference exists in kindling development between acute and chronic preparations using identical species of animals, kindled brain tissues, stimulus intervals, and intensities.
(3) The kainate and quisqualate types of excitatory amino acid receptor were visualized autoradiographically in brain sections from rats kindled by stimulating the angular bundle.
(4) A corrective effect of Nicotinamide on oxidation processes in ganglion and neuroglial cells of cerebral cortex sensorimotor zone in "kindling" phenomenon was studied in the experiments on mice of C57BL line.
(5) PHT, CBZ, VPA, and CZP, SK&F 89976-A and SK&F 100330-A inhibited seizures in corneally kindled rats.
(6) The inhibitory effect of serotonin on the kindling model of epilepsy was investigated in the adult rat.
(7) In the second experiment, 15- and 30-day-old rats underwent unilateral carotid ligation followed by kindling in the ipsilateral amygdala.
(8) If Obama is your new iPad, Sarah Palin is your old Kindle.
(9) Electrical amygdaloid kindling was carried out with a 15 min inter-stimulus interval (ISI) in a control situation with intravenous (i.v.)
(10) We suggest that the NE-dependent mechanism responsible for the seizure suppression observed to follow concurrent, alternate stimulation and the suppression of seizure development using single-site kindling paradigms may be the same.
(11) GABAergic neurons and terminals are also increased in the hippocampus of seizure-sensitive gerbils, and kindling of the hippocampus and amygdala appears to enhance GABAergic inhibitory mechanisms.
(12) Based on an hypothesis that links electrical kindling in the limbic system (leading to seizures) to reverse tolerance or sensitivity to cocaine's effects, carbamazepine is being tested as a treatment for human cocaine users.
(13) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.
(14) In fully kindled animals a stimulus-induced generalized seizure gave rise to a three-fold increase of noradrenaline levels in the stimulated hippocampus as compared to baseline levels (15-min samples).
(15) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(16) Amygdaloid kindling of rats produced an increase in hippocampal Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 and cholecystokinin immunoreactivities and simultaneously a decrease in dynorphin A1-8 content.
(17) The data suggest that GABA-T inhibitors, such as vigabatrin, differ from most antiepileptic drugs previously tested in the kindling model in that they may produce both anticonvulsant and proconvulsant effects at the same dose in the same animal as a function of time after administration.
(18) However, the concentration of Asp decreased depending on the kindling stage, reaching the lowest value of 33% in comparison with the normal value.
(19) Thus, electrophysiological alterations within the first synaptic relay of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit, the dentate gyrus, cannot explain the long duration of the kindling effect.
(20) In brightness discrimination reaction (BDR) the learning performance of PTZ-kindled animals was not influenced.
Scorched
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scorch
Example Sentences:
(1) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(3) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(5) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
(6) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
(7) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(8) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(9) Then Belt, belts one to center that is scorched but lands safely in the glove of Jay.
(10) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
(11) Also, a wildfire in a rugged area near the Canadian border chased hundreds of people from their homes and burned 10 to 12 structures, and a blaze north-east of Colville scorched almost five square miles and forced evacuations at campgrounds in the area.
(12) City had to grind out this latest success, initially scorched by the pace of Yannick Bolasie, Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako and grateful to Joe Hart’s flying save to deny Jason Puncheon after the interval.
(13) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
(14) Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex, including "a scorching lovemaking scene on a hay bale".
(15) And unlike beach sand, the sands here, made up of eroded gypsum crystals, do not get scorching hot in the sun and can usually be walked on in bare feet, even on the hottest days.
(16) Ground crews and water-dropping helicopters tamed the biggest blaze in Los Padres national forest, north of Los Angeles, by Wednesday after it scorched 1,858 acres.
(17) We shall pursue our own scorched earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground..." His elders shut him up.
(18) Martin's clothing was scorched by gunpowder while the bullet hole in his chest was not, he said, proving that there was "at least an inch, or two or three" separating his clothing from his skin.
(19) I said: ‘This is the game-changer.’ Sharapova didn’t win a game.” Earlier in the Open, after Williams had struggled through a match, she left the stadium and headed to a practice court where she spent the next hour with Mouratoglou hitting in the scorching afternoon sun trying to find the right feeling on her swing.
(20) When police later searched the scorched apartment, they found newspaper clippings about the murders of the Turkish-German businessmen, copies of the Pink Panther DVD, and the Česká pistol.