(1) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
(2) The extent and duration of the blood pressure (BP) lowering effect of 20 mg nitrendipine (NIT) once daily and 40 mg nicardipine slow release (NIC) twice daily were compared in 12 men (aged 39-55 years) with mild essential hypertension according to a randomized, cross over study.
(3) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.
(4) We have studied the fate of NIT in the immature female rat, the animal model in which most of the biochemical studies of NIT have been carried out.
(5) In Neurospora crassa, the expression of nit-3, the structural gene which encodes nitrate reductase, is highly regulated and requires both nitrate induction and nitrogen catabolite derepression.
(6) In cells that contain a mutation in the putative regulatory gene nit-2, significantly lower levels of the 3.4-kilobase transcript were found, indicating that the wild-type nit-2 gene is involved in the control of nitrate reductase transcript levels.
(7) Approximately 80% of the infested children had nits that were 2-5 cm away from the scalp.
(8) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
(9) The lack of inhibitory effect by Nit-arg in cultured islets may reflect the absence of endothelial or nervous cells in the cultured islets.
(10) The synthesis and turnover of the nit-3 mRNA were also examined and found to occur rapidly and efficiently under changing metabolic conditions.
(11) Aspergillus extracts contained an inhibitor(s) which was measured by the decrease in NADPH-dependent nitrate reductase formed when extracts of Rhodospirillum rubrum and N. crassa, nit-1 were incubated at room temperature.
(12) The presence of molybdenum cofactor in the nitrate reductase was indicated by the formation of molybdopterin form A in the oxidation of the enzyme by iodine and by the complementation of NADPH-nitrate reductase with the heart-treated enzyme in the extract of Neurospora crassa nit-1.
(13) The presence of multiple copies of wild-type or mutant nit-4 genes did not generally lead to increased enzyme activity or growth rate, but instead frequently appeared to be detrimental to nit-4 function.
(14) Mutants of the nit-2 locus, a regulatory gene which is postulated to mediate nitrogen catabolite repression, are deficient in the ability to utilize several amino acids as well as other nitrogen sources used by wild type.
(15) An average of ten nits were taken from each patient both before and after treatment.
(16) So there are nits to pick but, by getting specific, Labour puts the coalition on the back foot.
(17) Nucleotide sequencing has revealed that the three nit-4 mutants, alleles 15, 1214, and 2994, are the result of a missense mutation, a nonsense mutation and a frameshift mutation, respectively.
(18) In addition, Nit may induce anti-anxiety through the modulation of Ca2+ mobilization in the central nervous system.
(19) Nit-picking about the detailed mechanisms of governance and accountability.
(20) However, transformants obtained with most of these nit-4 mutant genes possess a markedly reduced level of nitrate reductase and grow only slowly on nitrate, emphasizing the need to examine quantitatively the affects of in vitro-manipulated genes.
Nitty
Definition:
(a.) Full of nits.
(a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
(2) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
(3) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
(4) • Lord Mandelson, writing in the Guardian , describes the process of shadow cabinet election as "an absurdity", but admits that New Labour had lost out because in government it had been too lazy to organise the grassroots, acting as if the nitty gritty of such work was beneath it.
(5) On the nitty-gritty side, one major concern has to be jobs.
(6) These are the moments commonly referred to as the "nitty gritty."
(7) But in terms of really getting to the nitty-gritty of telling people what impact that money is going to make, that comes a long, long way down.” According to an Ipsos Mori poll 54% of current donors choose to give to charities “that decide what to do based on evidence”, compared to 30% who give to charities whose activities are values--led.
(8) Over on Channel 4 Homeland is getting down to the nitty gritty end of its third season, with 1.8 million viewers watching the 10th of 12 episodes.
(9) It was a 125-page smorgasbord of vague targets and nitty-gritty measures, from "ensuring the UK remains one of the top destinations for foreign direct investment", to redrafting the little known Outer Space Act to capitalise on the UK's strength in building space vehicles.
(10) For Britain, by contrast, this is unprecedented governmental programme transparency, a step forward, real grownup, nitty-gritty stuff.
(11) That Frank Nitti - every week confounded by Elliot Ness."
(12) The nitty gritty of the merger deal is likely to take considerable management time and effort at a time when ITV cannot afford to take its eye off the battle it has with the BBC and BSkyB.
(13) Finance ministers might also succeed in bringing forward the date when capital can be injected into struggling bank, when they hammer out the nitty-gritty of the deal.
(14) But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, the brothers are very different.
(15) It was as if we felt the nitty gritty of organising at the grassroots was somehow beneath us.
(16) They are still behaving as if Old Trafford is a dream destination, somewhere anyone in the managerial world would love to come and have a go, conveniently ignoring the actual nitty gritty of the club's reduced cirmcumstances.
(17) The team, which includes researchers in seven countries and three continents, is trying to nail down the nitty-gritty details involved in turning insects into animal feed.
(18) It is pretty harsh on countries like South Africa which is doing a good job of protecting lions.” Robin Freeman, at the Zoological Society of London, UK, said: “While looking at things on aggregate is interesting, the real interesting nitty gritty comes in the details.
(19) This stuff, the nitty-gritty of governing, is boring; even worse than that is trying to turn political visions into actual laws.
(20) "It has not been involved in the nitty-gritty of fighting.