What's the difference between potassium and tartar?

Potassium


Definition:

  • (n.) An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (2) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
  • (3) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
  • (4) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
  • (5) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
  • (6) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (7) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
  • (8) Assuming 1 kg LBM to contain 52.1 mmol potassium, the mean LBM was 3028 g in the I-NSM and 2739 in the I-SM; mean fat mass was similar in both groups.
  • (9) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
  • (10) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
  • (11) No changes were seen in the levels of serum creatinine and potassium, but episodes of hyperkalemia were more frequent in patients on Epo.
  • (12) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (13) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (14) No difference in urinary sodium or potassium excretion was observed between SHR and WKY, but basal calcium and phosphate excretion were reduced in SHR (P less than 0.05).
  • (15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
  • (16) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
  • (17) A calcium dependent potassium conductance was probably involved in the slow phase, because it was sensitive to inorganic calcium blockers.
  • (18) The renal response to aldosterone, measured by urinary sodium and potassium excretion, was determined in adrenalectomized rats that had been previously fed either a high potassium diet or a control diet.
  • (19) Our results clearly indicate impaired carbohydrate metabolism in potassium-depleted rats.
  • (20) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.

Tartar


Definition:

  • (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.
  • (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
  • (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
  • (n.) See Tartarus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tartaric acid-evoked contractions of the rat isolated fundus could not be antagonized by atropine sulphate or methysergide hydrogen maleate, but were partially reduced by mepyramine hydrochloride.
  • (2) Maleic acid, malonic acid, oxalic acid, and L-(+)-tartaric acid, as well as other Krebs cycle acids such as citric and isocitric acids, were not accepted by the malate transport system.
  • (3) Tartar formed when different tooth pastes are used may exhibit different characteristics; 2.
  • (4) An investigation on the mechanism of action of bilharcid and tartar-emetic produced the following results.
  • (5) Disuccinimidyl tartarate crosslinking of 35S-labeled IL-5 to the receptors on the T88-M and lipopolysaccharide-stimulated BCL1-B20 cells revealed two major 35S-labeled components of Mr 92,500 and Mr 160,000, even when the binding of 35S-labeled IL-5 was carried out under high-affinity conditions (100 pM 35S-labeled IL-5).
  • (6) The needs for treatment of parodontal diseases in these 12-year-old children were as follows: 81.1% required improved oral hygiene, 17.8% required also tartar removal.
  • (7) The Tartars, he said, were back where they belonged – an assurance those with longer memories may find alarming.
  • (8) Phosphatidylcholine vesicles are permeable to tempotartrate, a spin-label derivative of tartaric acid.
  • (9) (+)-Tartaric acid is incorporated into glass-ionomer dental cements to control the setting characteristics.
  • (10) Vance Tartar, although he worked with a genetically undomesticated organism (Stentor coeruleus), provided early evidence for the crucial role of clonally propagated features of the cell cortex.
  • (11) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
  • (12) In a three month double-blind clinical trial, a tartar control dentifrice formulation containing soluble pyrophosphates was compared to a placebo formula.
  • (13) The ether eluate is extracted with tartaric acid solution.
  • (14) After incubation in medium containing 50 mM L(+)-tartaric acid, osteoclasts and chondroclasts were heavily stained with reaction product.
  • (15) Four formulations of toothpastes were assessed: (A) control-low flavor with no tartar control; (B) medium flavoring with medium tartar control; (C) high flavoring with medium tartar control; and (D) medium flavoring with no tartar control.
  • (16) The inhibitory activity resided in the less soluble salt formed with the D-tartaric acid compound.
  • (17) Marcus is totally, completely, 100% not guilty, but the trauma of finding family tartare strewn around his house has inspired him to prove his innocence via moves that range from "violent shouting", "lying down in puddles covered in his wife's blood" and "escaping from police custody to run around Manchester with his hood up, punching everyone".
  • (18) Similar results were obtained by using various diols (arabinose, cellobiose, FAD, fructose, glyceraldehyde, ribose, and tartaric acid), alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids, and glutathione.
  • (19) After the public recognition of the dental plaque as the primary etiological factor for the diseases of gingiva and periodontium, the tartar is the object of comparatively small number of studies.
  • (20) Cough threshold to inhaled tartaric acid was measured in 33 men and 29 women.

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