(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) The following alterations in liver function tests are associated with phenytoin hepatotoxicity: elevations in serum aminotransferases, lactic dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin, and prothrombin time.
(3) S-lactic dehydrogenase (s-LDH), SGOT, and s-alkaline phosphatase were found to be too unspecific to indicate liver metastases unless all three tests were normal or abnormal.
(4) Several histidine derivatives are not susceptible to the enzyme but do inhibit the enzyme activity competitively; the most effective inhibitors are L-histidine methyl ester (Ki = 3.66 mM) and beta-imidazole lactic acid (Ki = 3.84 mM).
(5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
(6) We examined the effect of lactic acid on cultured human glioma cell lines expressing glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), vimentin and neuron-specific enolase (NSE).
(7) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(8) Isolated urinary bladder strips were prepared from bladder base and body and the following metabolic determinations were made: glucose utilization, glycogen formation, CO2, and lactic acid formation.
(9) Preretinal pulsatile pressure juxtaarteriolar microinjections of neutral-pH solution of L-lactic acid also induced a segmental retinal arteriolar dilation.
(10) They analysed vascular resistance on the foetal side of the placenta, glucose consumption, production of lactic acid and pyruvic acid.
(11) Since hypoglycemia was associated with acidosis, the severe lactic acidosis in our patient may have been due to an overproduction of lactic acid as well as to an impaired hepatic gluconeogenesis in the presence of leukemic cells.
(12) Rumen pH decrease to below 5.0 in S2-, lasalocid-, and monensin-treated cattle was not due to lactic acid, but to increased production of volatile fatty acids.
(13) An autopsy case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is reported.
(14) It is possible that cell walls may be involved in the binding of mutagenic pyrolyzates to lactic acid bacteria.
(15) Ventilation (VE) and arterial pH were measured at rest and during exercise before and after infusions of lactic acid (70 meq), HCl (26 meq), NaHCO3 (45 and 90 meq), or normal saline alone (250 ml).
(16) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
(17) The severity of lactic acidosis in critically ill patients correlates with overall oxygen debt and survival.
(18) This increase of lactic acid persists 24 hours after the induction of infarction.
(19) In vitro exposure of rat thymocytes to arecoline resulted in a biphasic oxygen consumption response with progressive increase in oxygen consumption, reaching a maximum value at 10(-5) M and decreasing sharply at 10(-3) M. Exogenously added substrates such as glucose, pyruvic acid and lactic acid retarded the fall in the oxygen consumption induced at 10(-3) M arecoline.
(20) Glycolic acid and 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-lactic acid were the specific substrates for MLO-I and MLO-II, respectively.
Tactic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Tactical
(n.) See Tactics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(4) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(5) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(6) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
(7) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(8) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(9) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
(10) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(11) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
(12) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(13) These tactics yield litters at weaning whose variability has been very much reduced.
(14) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(15) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
(16) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(17) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(18) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(19) Tactical voting also delivered significant gains - up to 50 seats, on some estimates - to the Liberal Democrats in Labour's slipstream as the Tories came close to a freefall.
(20) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.