(1) Retinae of Abyssinian cats homozygous for a retinal degeneration gene, and normal controls, have been investigated using antibodies directed against opsin, transducin alpha (TD-alpha), S-antigen (48K protein), interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP), and cone outer segments.
(2) Hereditary progressive retinal atrophy in Abyssinian cats in England is recorded.
(3) Eight cases of hereditary progressive retinal atrophy in Abyssinian cats in Denmark are reported.
(4) GABA (gamma-amino butyric acid) and its synthesizing enzyme, GAD (glutamate decarboxylase; EC 4.1.1.15) were localized in the retina of Abyssinian cats homozygous for a recessively inherited retinal degenerative disorder which in several respects is similar to the human disease, retinitis pigmentosa.
(5) Secondary prediction plots showed less potential for amyloidogenicity (i.e., less beta-sheet conformation) in protein AA of the DSH cat as compared to the Abyssinian cat and other animal species.
(6) The Abyssinian is incompletely dominant to the striped and blotched alleles, whereas striped is completely dominant to the blotched.
(7) Congenital hypothyroidism was diagnosed in related Abyssinian cats.
(8) Familial amyloidosis in the Abyssinian cat may represent a valuable spontaneous animal model for the study of Familial Mediterranean Fever in man and the pathogenesis of reactive amyloidosis in general.
(9) Serum amyloid A (SAA) protein concentration was determined by use of radial immunodiffusion (RID) in 4 groups of cats: Abyssinian cats with amyloidosis, healthy Abyssinian cats without clinical evidence of amyloidosis, hospitalized non-Abyssinian cats, and clinically normal non-Abyssinian cats.
(10) The results of a series of log intensity-amplitude studies in a group of young affected Abyssinian cats were fitted to the Naka-Rushton relationship by means of a mathematical package on the University of London mainframe.
(11) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(12) Ophthalmoscopic and electroretinographic (ERG) findings were correlated in a group of Abyssinian cats affected by a slowly progressive and hereditary retinal degenerative disease.
(13) Electroretinography was performed in 10 Abyssinian cats, homozygous for a hereditary retinal degenerative disease but still with an ophthalmoscopically normal retina, and in 11 mixed-breed controls, all between the ages of 8 and 104 weeks.
(14) Ninety-four cases of a hereditary retinal degeneration in household Abyssinian cats were found in Sweden, mainly during a 3-year period.
(15) Clinically normal mongrel cats and heterozygous Abyssinian cats were studied for comparison.
(16) The retinal disease found in this strain of Abyssinian cats is a heritable disorder, primarily affecting the photoreceptors.
(17) Mean SAA concentration in clinically normal non-Abyssinian cats was significantly (P = 0.05) lower than mean SAA concentration in healthy Abyssinian cats without clinical evidence of amyloidosis and in hospitalized non-Abyssinian cats.
(18) Pedigrees of 62 Abyssinian cats with familial amyloidosis were compared with those of 100 Abyssinian cats registered with the Cat Fanciers Association.
(19) Abyssinian cats with different stages of a slowly progressive autosomal recessively-inherited retinal degeneration were studied with imaging fundus reflectometry (IFR) and electroretinography (ERG).
(20) This strain of Abyssinian cats, affected by the presently described retinal disease, therefore has the potential of becoming a new animal model in the study of hereditary visual cell disease processes.
Inhabitant
Definition:
(n.) One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state.
(n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(2) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
(3) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.
(4) When matched on number of inhabitants per birthplace, no significant differences were found.
(5) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well.
(9) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(10) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.
(11) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(12) During the MONICA project, the survey of cardiovascular risk factor prevalence enabled us to measure the thickness of four skinfolds (biceps, triceps, subscapular, suprailiac) in 263 inhabitants of Lausanne (125 men, 138 women).
(13) The POL-MONICA Project screened in 1984 1309 men and 1337 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of Warsaw (the Warsaw centre) and 1250 men and 1472 women aged 35 to 64 years, inhabitants of the Tarnobrzeg province (the Cracow centre).
(14) Inhabitants are excluded from other social housing despite many having lived in Italy for generations; a fact the tribunal in Rome cited as evidence of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
(15) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
(16) A tenacious Anabaena epiphyte was also discovered inhabiting the surfaces of root nodules.
(17) There are presently five doctors for a 130,000 inhabitants population, collaborating in the setting up of basic health services.
(18) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(19) In this period, the incidence was highest in the age group 70-79 years for both women and men, with 485 and 410 arthroplasties per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively; the overall incidence was 82 per 100,000 inhabitants.
(20) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.