(n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
(n.) The common American black snake.
(n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
Example Sentences:
(1) White Carneau (WC) pigeons are susceptible to the development of aortic atherosclerosis, whereas Show Racer (SR) pigeons are resistant, even though there are no differences in the known risk factors, including plasma cholesterol levels, lipoproteins, blood pressure, etc.
(2) A ski racer landing in a bent position on flat ground after a jump documented on video tape felt a sharp pain and immediate instability, though he did not fall.
(3) Biosynthesis of PGE2 from [1-14C]arachidonic acid was investigated in the aorta of spontaneously atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau pigeons and was compared with that of the atherosclerosis-resistant Show Racer breed.
(4) I wish the rest of the racers good luck – if you are rowing this week you better know how to swim.” Meanwhile, the Irish sculler Sanita Puspure, who finished one place ahead of Negm in second, described the conditions as “horrific”.
(5) The purpose of this study was to determine peak aerobic power and associated physiological responses in highly competitive spinal cord injured (SCI) paraplegic road racers.
(6) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
(7) Attitudes about helmet policy and actual use by racers were inconsistent; large percentages of those opposing mandatory helmet use in racing (51%) and in training (76%) used helmets themselves.
(8) The wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft was one of those who won memorable gold medals in the stadium and will be back for the Anniversary Games next weekend which, as Bolt and Mo Farah fly in to compete, will provide an early stern test of the public appetite for athletics at the stadium.
(9) While the V1 skate technique is not the most economical roller skiing technique on flat ground, the lower associated perceived effort and respiratory exchange ratios may at least partially account for the general preference of cross-country ski racers to use the V1 skating technique rather than the double pole technique on flat terrain.
(10) Detailed knowledge of the morphologic sequence of events in lesion localization makes the celiac bifurcation in White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons a useful model for genetic comparisons of arterial wall metabolism and for investigating metabolic alterations occurring with atherogenesis.
(11) "This government has already scrapped the M4 bus lane, cut central government funding for money-making speed cameras and announced new measures to crack down on boy racers and reckless drivers while standing up for the decent majority," he said.
(12) Neither in the drag racer's bus nor wherever it went after that did anyone even bother to look at The Scream.
(13) Analysis of levels of total hydroxyproline and isodesmosine in the thoracic aorta and celiac bifurcation of prelesion, six-week-old White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons, revealed an increased accumulation of total collagen and cross-linked elastin in the White Carneau arterial tissue.
(14) A study of anthropometric and functional characteristics was conducted in a sample of 29 athletes, flatwater racers 18 kayakers and 11 canoeists.
(15) I remember building a Chopper-style bike out of a smaller racer with a tiny wheel on the front.
(16) The lipid composition of yolks of developing embryonic atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau (WC) and -resistant Show Racer (SR) pigeons was analyzed to determine whether embryonic nutrition might be a factor in the difference in susceptibility to aortic atherosclerosis.
(17) Even the Wachowski brothers, who made their fortunes with the Matrix trilogy, could not steer Speed Racer (2008) to success.
(18) The presence of specific receptors for the metabolism of acetylated low density lipoprotein (AcLDL) and beta-migrating very low density lipoprotein (beta-VLDL) was demonstrated in thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages from both atherosclerosis-susceptible White Carneau (WC) and resistant Show Racer (SR) pigeons.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bike racers at the Hope Street event.
(20) The authors probed the vascular endothelial cell cytoskeleton in strains of pigeons that are atherosclerosis-susceptible and disease-resistant, namely, the White Carneau and Show Racer pigeons.
Racker
Definition:
(n.) One who racks.
(n.) A horse that has a racking gait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liposomes containing this preparation exhibit a respiratory control ratio [Hinkle, P. C., Kim, J. J., & Racker, E. (1972) J. Biol.
(2) The role of length and unsaturation of phospholipid acyl chains in the activation of ATPase complex was studied with synthetic phosphatidylcholines and a phospholipid-dependent preparation obtained after cholate-extraction of submitochondrial particles (Kagawa, Y. and Racker, E. (1966) J. Biol.
(3) The nonionic detergent, octylglucoside, egg phosphatidylcholine, and the lipid-deficient, oligomycin-sensitive F0.F1-ATPase (Serrano, R., Kanner, B., and Racker, E. (1976) J. Biol.
(4) In agreement with a recent report that the purified active ATPase molecule is largely phosphorylated (Yanagita, Y., Abdel-Ghany, M., Raden, D., Nelson, N., and Racker, E. (1987) Proc.
(5) In combination with asolectin, the cholate dilution technique (H. Miyamoto and E. Racker, J. Biol.
(6) This preparation of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase has many properties in common with the adenosine triphosphatase coupling factor from mitochondria (Racker, 1961).
(7) The claim of Racker and co-workers (Lin, Z. F., Lucero, H. A., and Racker, E. (1982) J. Biol.
(8) The amino-terminus of M13 coat protein is also found exclusively on the outside of dilauroyl or dimyristoyl lecithin vesicles, formed with coat protein by the cholate dilution technique [Racker, E., et al.
(9) Transformation by ras oncogenes has also been reported to result in enhanced PLC response to bradykinin resulting from increased receptor numbers (G. Parries, R. Hoebel, and E. Racker, Proc.
(10) 1 h of incubation and the original Racker's method gave similar results.
(11) The study of the properties of these mutants has shown that Cys149 is clearly responsible for the information of a charge-transfer transition, named the Racker band, observed during the NAD+ binding to apoGAPDH.
(12) (Lin, Z. F., Lucero, H. A., and Racker, E. (1982) J. Biol.
(13) With pig muscle enzyme, at pH 6.0, the time course of formation of the characteristic Racker band can be monitored by a rapid mixing stopped flow technique.
(14) This result excludes a similarity between the Racker band and the charge-transfer transition observed following the alkylation of GAPDH by 3-chloroacetyl pyridine-adenine dinucleotide.
(15) A. Thomas, R. N. Buchsbaum, A. Zimniak, and E. Racker.
(16) The bovine heart F0F1-ATPase preparation (Serrano, R., Kanner, B., and Racker, E. (1976) J. Biol.
(17) An eminent biochemist gives his personal view of misconduct in science, one largely based on an experience with the case of fraud by a young researcher, Mark Spector, in Racker's own laboratory at Cornell University.
(18) The phospholipid composition of oligomycin-sensitive ATPase fractions from mitochondria, precipitated under different ammonium sulfate concentrations according to the Kagawa-Racker method, was studied.
(19) Racker argues that fraud committed by talented professional scientists springs from an unbalanced mind, that each case must be handled individually and pursued in the courts if the evidence warrants it, and that Congress must be persuaded that the research community can and will assume responsibility for the detection and punishment of scientific misconduct.
(20) As compared with the enzyme isolated by well known Lien and Racker method, the enzyme preparation obtained is slightly activated by heating, is not activated by trypsin and has a lesser ability to recover ATP synthesis in EDTA-treated chloroplasts.