(n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
(v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Reading win promotion in the Championship play-off final against Swansea City on Monday – and, to be fair, even if they don't – a lot of managers will probably be feeling a pang of regret.
(2) Administration of furosemide induced marked increases in PRA, Ang I-ir, PAng II-ir and CSF Ang II-ir, however, neither plasma nor CSF angiotensinogen was changed.
(3) Elevation of sodium intake suppressed pANG II to minimal levels in nonpregnant sheep, but to only 25% of the control level in pregnant sheep.
(4) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(5) I look around and everyone else seems to have invited Barbie into their children's toy chests without a pang of guilt.
(6) in the accompanying paper (L. T. Haber, P. P. Pang, D. I. Sobell, J.
(7) The influence of nifedipine treatment on plasma (PV) and extracellular fluid volume (ECV), the ratio of plasma volume to interstitial fluid volume (PV:IF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), renal clearances of Na+ and K+, plasma concentrations of renin (PRC), angiotensin II (pANG II), aldosterone (pAldo), adrenaline (PA) and noradrenaline (PNA) were studied in 18 consecutive patients with essential hypertension.
(8) A disgraceful display in any civilized society to be sure, but for fight fans of a certain vintage it was hard to not feel a pang of nostalgia.
(9) In spite of significant suppression of PRA and PAng I-ir, there were no significant changes in either plasma or CSF angiotensinogen.
(10) Immunological data revealed that the 42- and 43-kDa proteins were related to alpha-subunits of the Gq class recently purified from brain (Pang, I.-H., and Sternweis, P. C. (1990) J. Biol.
(11) This difference was more evident for the Yao Pang locus.
(12) "I'd be fibbing if I said I didn't have a pang for that – the amazing five days [of coalition talks that followed the election] and deals stuck together and all the rest of it.
(13) Across the contralateral kidney the veno-arterial differences in PRC and pANG II were both close to zero, while negative differences in pANG II indicated the removal of ANG II.
(14) He has been burdened with them for a decade and more, first satisfying the hunger pangs wrought by 77 years of waiting for someone to emulate Fred Perry, then leading this team here to smash more Perry history and win the Cup for Great Britain for the first time since 1936.
(15) Also, the inverse relationship of sodium intake and pANG II was blunted, suggesting a reduced role for ANG II in the maintenance of renal function during pregnancy.
(16) Previous studies in the once-through perfused rat liver preparation have shown that the techniques of normal and retrograde delivery of substrate and computer simulation of enzyme distributions along the sinusoidal flow path in liver were useful in delineating the relative distributions of sulfation and glucuronidation activities for harmol metabolism (Pang et al., J. Pharmacol.
(17) said Pang Jinhua, mother-in-law of lawyer Teng Biao, who has been missing since mid-February.
(18) Rather the zonal localization of metabolizing activities [a periportal sulfation, evenly distributed glucuronidation, and perivenous hydroxylation system (Xu and Pang, J. Pharmacokinet.
(19) River flows had however been boosted temporarily – the Pang in Berkshire, which had been completely dry, was flowing again thanks to runoffs from drenched fields.
(20) Veno-arterial differences in pANG I across the affected kidney in patients with lateralization of the renin secretion indicated release of angiotensin I (ANG I) in considerable amounts.
Pong
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinetic data are compatible with a tert-uni ping-pong mechanism, as in the case of the 'classical' glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9).
(2) Initial-velocity kinetic studies indicate the enzyme acts by a ping-pong mechanism.
(3) Initial velocity and isotope exchange studies confirmed that the over-all reaction, like that catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase purified from rat liver and chicken liver, was a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni sequence with ATP and HCO3-binding randomly in the Bi Bi partial reaction.
(4) The asymptotic kinetics of lipoamide oxidoreductions switch between the ping pong and ordered mechanisms by varying pH of the reactions.
(5) Penetration of these drugs into perforated ping pong balls implanted intraperitoneally in rabbits was studied.
(6) The results obtained were consistent with a ping-pong or substitution mechanism.
(7) Since each catalytic cycle step is irreversible, the data fit a peroxidase ping-pong mechanism rather than an ordered bi-bi ping-pong mechanism.
(8) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
(9) It seems most probable that, as previously suggested by others for Ts, eIF-2B effectively catalyses an exchange reaction through a "ping-pong" type mechanism.
(10) Initial velocity studies indicate that the enzymatic reaction proceeds by a Ping-Pong mechanism.
(11) This reaction pathway is compared with the double displacement (Ping Pong) mechanisms that have previously been described for pyruvate carboxylases from other sources.
(12) The wild-type enzyme and Y177F mutant displayed ping-pong kinetics, but the Y177S and Y177G mutants appeared to have switched to an ordered sequential mechanism.
(13) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.
(14) Initial velocity measurements in which the concentration of L-alpha-methyl-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate was varied at several fixed acceptor concentrations, and either the release of alpha-aminobutyrate or the formation of the transpeptidation products was determined, yielded results which are consistent with a ping-pong mechanism modified by a hydrolytic shunt.
(15) Contrary to findings with another enzyme (fraction I), a Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong mechanism (Cleland, 1963a,b,c) corresponding to Berg's (1956) scheme of reaction was eliminated and an ordered Ter Ter mechanism with an A-C-B (standing for ATP, CoA and butyrate respectively) sequence of substrate entry for the overall reaction was established for fraction II.
(16) The Peak Ia and Peak II enzymes both absolutely require alpha-D-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate and Mg2+ for activity, and appear to have a "ping-pong" mechanism.
(17) Neuronal as well as astrocytic GABA-transaminase obeyed a bi bi ping-pong reaction mechanism.
(18) The N-acetylglucosamine and mannitol enzymes II, which do not function with an enzyme III, catalyze sugar phosphorylation by a ping-pong mechanism when the two substrates are phospho-HPr and sugar.
(19) Constant-ratio double-reciprocal plots confirm that the enzyme mechanism is nonsequential (ping-pong bi-bi).
(20) In contrast, a comparable reaction of the A-U-G analog with 30S subunits lead to a predominant crosslinking of A-U-G to proteins S4 and S12 (Pongs, O., Stoffler, G.A., Lanka, E., (1975) J. Mol.