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Nik — suffered from a sudden rush of ugly building in the 1970s and has a young and noisy crowd, it has made a concerted effort to keep its character and offers a more Greek atmosphere than the Mália/Hersónissos strip.
The Toll-like receptor family [ 49], which has evolutionary roots throughout invertebrate metazoans for pattern-based recognition of bacterial and fungal cell-surface components [ 50], activate NFκB through convergent pathways involving the IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK), the adaptor protein MyD88, TRAF6, NFκB-inducing kinase (NIK), and IκB kinase (Iκk) [ 51].
Among the most highly induced were the genes encoding NFκB1, RelB, IκB-alpha (the inhibitor of NFκB1), IκKε (IκB kinase-epsilon), and NFκB-inducing kinase or Map-3-kinase-14 (NIK, MAP3K14).
As for schnoz , it does sound Yiddish, there does exist a verb schneitzen `to blow one's nose,' and the shn - combination does connote something to do with the nose; but there is no word shnozzle in Yiddish, only noz or, in the alternate dialect, nuz . Phudnik is not a Yiddish word but was clearly formed on the Yiddish root -nik , which also occurs in Slavic.
A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.