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Pecker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
(n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently reported that glucagon activated the L-type Ca2+ channel current in frog ventricular myocytes and showed that this was linked to the inhibition of a membrane-bound low-Km cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) (Méry, P. F., Brechler, V., Pavoine, C., Pecker, F., and Fischmeister, R. (1990) Nature 345, 158-161).
(2) I’ve always called him Cold Pecker and I always will.” I mishear her.
(3) These properties of Ca2+ transport by vesicles reconstituted from liver plasma membranes suggest that this ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport component is different from the high affinity (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase found in the same membrane preparation (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J. and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.
(4) A clinical classification of this traumatic pathology according to the epidural hematoma classification of Pecker et al is proposed.
(5) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.
(6) Friday on Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed several top White House staffers had warned him that an article in the National Enquirer, a tabloid controlled by Trump ally David Pecker, would unmask the couple’s relationship.
(7) 256, 11209-11215; Lotersztajn, S. and Pecker, F. (1982) J. Biol.
(8) magazine is a very important strategic acquisition for AMI, as it increases our market share in newsstand unit sales from 30% to 36%," said David Pecker, AMI chairman, president and chief executive.
(9) We have recently shown that nanomolar concentrations of glucagon-(19-29), which can derive from native glucagon by proteolytic cleavage of the dibasic doublet Arg17-Arg18, inhibit the Ca2+ pump in liver plasma membrane vesicles independently of adenylyl cyclase activation (Mallat, A., Pavoine, C., Dufour, M., Lotersztajn, S., Bataille, D., and Pecker, F. (1987) Nature 325, 620-622).
(10) The morphology of the follicular epithelium during the course of oogenesis in poultry (duck goose, hen, turkey) and at the first stages of oocyte growth in some wild birds (finch, totmit, wood-pecker, pigeon) was studied.
(11) The purified (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase from rat liver plasma membranes (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J., and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.