What's the difference between skiffing and sniffing?
Skiffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skiff
Example Sentences:
(1) These data provide a direct correlation between the effects of SKIF on eIF-2 alpha phosphorylation and on protein synthetic activity and demonstrate the specificity of SKIF.
(2) Mouse L-cells infected with vaccinia virus produce a specific kinase inhibitory factor (SKIF) which inhibits the activation of the interferon-induced, double-stranded (ds)RNA-dependent, eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-2 alpha-specific protein kinase in L-cell extracts (Whitaker-Dowling, P., and Younger, J. S., (1984) Virology 137, 171).
(3) The results also show that SKIF does not abolish dsRNA sensitivity, but increases the concentration of dsRNA required to activate the kinase and phosphorylate eIF-2.
(4) The effects of a partially purified preparation of SKIF have been examined in cell-free extracts of rabbit reticulocytes.
(5) In addition to its effects on eIF-2 alpha-PKds activity, SKIF prevents dsRNA-induced inhibition of protein synthesis in reticulocyte lysate.
(6) In contrast, SKIF does not prevent the translational inhibition caused by hemin depletion.
(7) SKIF inhibits the phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eIF-2 by dsRNA-dependent eIF-2 alpha-kinase in reticulocyte lysate, but does not affect phosphorylation of eIF-2 by the heme-sensitive kinase.
Sniffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sniff
(n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(2) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
(3) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(4) A Standard Neutron Irradiation Facility (SNIF) was established using a 3 MV Van de Graaff accelerator.
(5) Cash may not return much but it will hold its nominal value, a feature not to be sniffed at when approaching retirement."
(6) Two cases of neonatal renal tubular dysfunction and metabolic acidosis due to maternal sniffing of a product containing toluene are reported.
(7) Scopolamine (10 micrograms) only slightly increased the effects of quinpirole (5 micrograms) on both sniffing and oral behaviors, whereas it dramatically potentiated the effects of fenoldopam (2.5 micrograms) on oral activity; sniffing was only slightly increased.
(8) S(+)-MDMA was more potent than R(-)-MDMA in eliciting stereotyped behaviors such as sniffing, head-weaving, backpedalling and turning and wet-dog shakes.
(9) Bilateral injection of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA, 10-300 micrograms) into the substantia nigra (pars reticulata) of rats produced stereotyped sniffing and had an analgesic-like effect on the hot-plate but not on the tail-flick test.
(10) Following the Nembutal injection, sniffing and feeding are disinhibited temporarily in condition 1, whereas in condition 3 only sniffing, but not feeding, is disinhibited.
(11) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
(12) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
(13) 25 cases of clinically severe toxic polyneuropathy were observed among young people in Berlin who were addicted to sniffing methylethylketone-containing solvents.
(14) Cocaine reduced both the total number and duration of sniffing and licking maternal behaviors, and resulted in a lower maternal behavior rating at 60 minutes compared to saline-treated subjects.
(15) Soon after injection, SKF38393 produced moderate increases in grooming and sniffing which were not very intense, while bromocriptine (with or without SKF38393) inhibited all grooming behaviour.
(16) Toluene which is used as the solvent is presumably the toxic agent involved in glue sniffing.
(17) They were then tested when adult on activity and sniffing behaviour.
(18) "Oh yeah, she's still massively important," he says, citing her strong connections with the underground and her instinct for sniffing out cutting-edge collaborators as reasons for continuing to take her work seriously.
(19) But Heinsohn is sniffed at by some contemporaries, who are wary of drawing too strong a connection between the youth bulge and instances of unrest – particularly very violent ones.
(20) The duration that a single odor needs to be sniffed for identification was determined for 18 humans.