What's the difference between peng and penk?

Peng


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.
  • (2) Skin tests including immediate patch test (IPT), skin prick test (SPT), or intradermal test (IT) with penicillin G(PenG) and SPT with benzylpenicilloyl human serum albumin (BPO) were done in 54 patients with history of anaphylactic reaction to penicillin or shock of unknown cause.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive at London’s Heathrow airport.
  • (4) "We heard an explosion in the mountains first, like an eruption from a volcano," said 40-year-old Peng Guiwu, wearing a neighbour's clothes because she had not dressed when the shock hit.
  • (5) Like former premier Li Peng's 3m yuan (£300,000) donation to a scholarship fund, and the attendance of another elder, Li Ruihuan, at the tennis match, such forays into the public eye are intended to signal that retired leaders are still around and active, say analysts.
  • (6) However, a recent study by Peng et al.17 using conventionally stained material, revealed no decrease in overall SCN cell number of senescent rats.
  • (7) CTAB and L14 but not TCP or Tw80 potentiated the activity of PenG but not Met on strains of staphylococci.
  • (8) Xi’s wife, the People’s Liberation Army soprano Peng Liyuan, will reportedly serve as its artistic director.
  • (9) The monoclonal antibody 217c, raised by Peng et al.
  • (10) At examination of normal persons, the ENG registration method was compared with that of PENG.
  • (11) The human lipoprotein lipase gene has been recently reported to have an identical exon-intron organization containing the analogous structural domains [Deeb & Peng (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4131-4135].
  • (12) He boasts a ready smile and a glamorous second wife – the renowned People's Liberation Army singer Peng Liyuan.
  • (13) Xi, who some describe as China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao, will stay at Buckingham Palace with his wife, the singer Peng Liyuan.
  • (14) But Liu Peng, the president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, batted away Kazakhstan’s provocations.
  • (15) In this study, electro-oculographic (EOG) and photo-electronystagmographic (PENG) techniques showed that up-directed saccades were faster than down-directed ones.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcome the Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the creative collaborations event.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Priddis, former founder and chief executive of strategic design firm S&C and partner and managing director of BCG Digital Ventures in Asia, at 2015 Singapore Business Design Summit Photograph: Wai Peng PK: What will the jobs of the future be?
  • (18) We also look forward to welcoming his excellency the president of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng on a state visit in October.” Xi is married to Peng Liyuan, a famous contemporary folk singer in China whose profile was higher than that of her husband’s for many years.
  • (19) Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), Tween 80 (Tw80), a mixture of n-alkyldimethyl betaines (L14), and alpha-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) propionic acid (TCP) were tested in combination with pencillin G (PenG), methicillin (Met), streptomycin (Sm), polymyxin B (PmB), and chlortetracycline (CTC).
  • (20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.

Penk


Definition:

  • (n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To study the role of the PENK gene in opioid related processes, an antisense sequence of PENK gene was subcloned into pSVL SV 40 late promoter expression vector and stably transfected into NG 108-15 cells, which contain opioid receptors.
  • (2) From steady-state kinetics half-life estimates of 9.6 h for PPenk mRNA and 14.7 h for Penk peptide were obtained.
  • (3) The Penk Combat Exposure scale did not separate the groups.
  • (4) "I was half expecting to see him on Songs of Praise," Penk added.
  • (5) Clinical observations and empirical evidence suggest that, among Vietnam combat veterans, Blacks are more maladjusted than Whites (e.g., Parsons, 1985; Penk et al., 1985).
  • (6) Penk, who now owns the Oldham-based local radio station 96.2 Revolution, said he was "appalled" at the "sheer scale of this unfair cross-promotion".
  • (7) "In these hard times it is difficult enough for the large, quasi-national commercial radio brands to compete with such unfair 'free' publicity," said Penk.
  • (8) The Penk Combat Intensity scale, which was correlated highly with the Keane scale, differentiated the PTSD-positive patients from both the normals and the PTSD-negative patients, but with less differentiating power (omega 2'S = .07 and .08).
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The former Capital and Virgin Radio DJ Steve Penk has written to the BBC Trust to complain about the "excessive" and "gratuitous" cross-promotion of Chris Evans's new Radio 2 breakfast show on television.
  • (10) An increase in PENK mRNA levels has been also observed in cultures treated with 8-Br-cAMP, phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (TPA), or dexamethasone.
  • (11) Thus, activation of Penk gene expression upon neurotransmitter challenge is suggested to be due to an enhanced transcriptional activity of the gene mediated by de novo synthesized protein (-like) factors.
  • (12) We suggest that both the increased PENK message and the unchanged levels of free Met-enkephalin may be the result of compensatory mechanisms induced by translational inhibition by antisense, although the underlying processes remain to be determined.
  • (13) Penk was also critical of what he called the "placement" of Evans on BBC TV shows including Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, the One Show and the Andrew Marr Show.
  • (14) Unilateral adrenal denervation resulted in a rapid decrease in PPenk mRNA levels of 54% after 2 days, and by 11 days 90% of Penk mRNA had disappeared.
  • (15) Penk claimed the Evans trail broke the BBC Trust's own policy on cross-promotion.
  • (16) However, incubation of the cultures with the opioid agonist etorphine or the antagonist naltrexone did not alter PENK gene expression, suggesting that there is not feedback control of opioids on PENK biosynthesis in these cells.
  • (17) In this study we identified the potential sites of synthesis by localizing the mRNA coding for PENK in the rat pituitary gland using in situ hybridization histochemistry.
  • (18) Depolarization with potassium chloride (KCl) or veratridine increases the expression of PENK mRNA in a time-dependent fashion, with a maximal increase of sixfold.
  • (19) The proenkephalin A (PENK) gene codes for several opioid peptides, including Met-enkephalin, an endogenous ligand of opioid receptors.
  • (20) After an initial lag phase (with no major alterations) Penk mRNA increased markedly between 6 and 12 h followed by a slower, steady increase up to 48 h. The nicotinic receptor antagonist tubocurarine (4 x 10(-7) M) and the Ca2+ channel blocker D600 (10(-5) M) prevent the subsequent rise of Penk mRNA levels after challenge with nicotine, when given within the lag phase (0-6 h), suggesting the need of continuous receptor occupation and Ca2+ entry for induction of gene expression.

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