Word: acidity
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...whole alleged 90's sideburn phenomenon canbe compared to Perry--a weak imitation of theoriginal. Like bell-bottoms and acid-washed jeans,sideburns will probably soon be nothing more thana distant fashion memory...
...doctors also found that bFGF accelerated healing in rats without reducing levels of gastric acid in the stomach. The mechanism for this action was discovered in studies which showed that bFGF binds to sucralfate, a drug used to treat ulcers, and is protected from breakdown by stomach acid...
...considered unmarriageable or pariahs by a conservative Islamic society. According to a government-authorized medical study, 350 Kuwaitis died during their imprisonment, usually after gruesome torture. Limbs were broken, eyes gouged out, ears and genitals cut off. In one case, a man was half immersed in a vat of acid. Men were killed by bullets, women by hanging, and victims of both sexes were executed...
Computer-assisted searches comparing the receptor's amino acid sequence to other known proteins found that they were slightly similar to two amino acid importing proteins of yeast. Experiments with frog eggs proved that the protein did in fact play a role similar to that of these previously discovered proteins...
...group is currently studying two inherited diseases in humans, lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) and cystinuria. Both diseases affect the ability of cells to import certain amino acids. Researchers believe that LPI, which creates a toxicity for proteins containing a certain amino acid, lysine, may be caused by a mutation in the protein under study...