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CCK

Richard Sargent dsargent at ix.netcom.com
Tue Jan 12 20:03:04 EST 1999


The story of CCK

To end the dominance of Re:CCK I decided to explain the convoluted issue one
last time to see if people want to keep discussing it.

Peter Sargent wrote:

> F. Frank LeFever wrote:
>
>
> > After some "clever" gobbledigook to show his contempt for the question,
>
> Not contempt for, but amusement by.  How does 'porcine' anything belong in
> this ng?  For crying out loud, that means 'pig'.

John Anderson wrote:You are correct.  Porcine means pig.  Are you suggesting
that pigs don't have
nervous systems and hence don't belong in a neuroscience newsgroup?Certainly
not.  All animals CNS can be discussed without penalty.

> Please, Mr. PhD(s) (all who are lurking),
> show us how applicable porcine cholecystokinin is to neuroscience
> discussion [compared with other topics available].

Peter Sargent wrote:

>  I interpretted, correctly I think, someone
> just trying to put multisyllabic words together [a specious inquiry, I
> believe] and I had some fun with it. (what I wrote isn't even completely
> scientifically wrong (except 'solenized' and ICCK))  so pass your sentence
> (and let it not be harsh), and I may be agreeable, pending a reply to some of
> the physics/ AI / CNS questions I was involved with.

i.e.

> > >> Could anyone tell me what newsgroup I should direct this question
> > to, or
> > >> maybe someone here knows....
> > >> Is porcine cholecystokinin exactly structurally analogous to human
> > CCK?
> > >
> > >Actually, PCCK has an expansive effect on porcine organelles while its
> > >humano-homologue is strictly contractive to the human gallbladder.
> > >
> > >> Would porcine cholecystokinin become antigenic after intramuscular
> > >> administration?
> > >
> > >It depends on your inertial reference frame.  A tissue biopsy may be
> > >conclusive as regards the effects of PCCK.
> > >
> > >>  If so, is there a comercially available recombinant CCK>?
> > >
> > >Personally, I wouldn't invest in PCCK if I were you.  However, the
> > HCCK  can
> > >be solenized into iguano-cholecystokinin and recombined with
> > multicultural RNA
> > >strands independent of mitochondrial abiogenesis.



> Peter L. Sargent






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