(1) Sycamore cells (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) in suspension culture were grown at 25 degrees C in culture medium containing two oxygen concentrations: 250 microM O2 (standard conditions) and 10 microM O2 (O2-limiting conditions).
(2) Taiwan's Acer and China's Haier Group declined to comment, while Toshiba and Taiwan's ASUSTeK Computer did not respond to queries.
(3) The complete primary structures of seven oligosaccharide subunits of the xyloglucan secreted by suspension-cultured Acer pseudoplatanus cells were determined.
(4) The standardized enzyme coupling method for assaying sucrose synthase activities in the direction of sucrose cleavage was reexamined using enzyme preparations from cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and spinach leaves (Spinacea oleracea).
(5) Protoplasts obtained from sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) cell suspensions were found to be highly intact and to retain a high rate of O2 consumption.
(6) Kinetic studies of ATP uptake in amyloplasts from sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) have been performed with a newly developed method of centrifugation through a double layer of silicone oil; the results are compared with the frequently used method of centrifugation through a single layer.
(7) The technique is based on the comparison of AChE (acetylcholinesterase) activity in 3 equal aliquots taken from the homogenate of a single mosquito (a) in absence of inhibitor (RA), (b) in presence of eserine that inhibits the AChE encoded by AceS and AceR alleles (RI) and (c) in presence of a concentration of propoxur inhibiting the AChE coded by the AceS allele but not by the AceR allele (RG).
(8) myo-Inositol-1-phosphate synthase (EC 5.5.1.4) from rat testis, Acer pseudoplatanus L. cell culture and Oryza sativa L. cell culture, converted D-[5-3H]glucose 6-phosphate to myo-[2-3H]inositol 1-phosphate at rates ranging from 0.21 to 0.48 that of unlabeled substrate.
(9) A series of 22 chlorinated phenols was investigated for their uncoupling effect on Acer cell suspensions.
(10) Previous attempts by another OHA member, Acer, to produce a smartphone with a different variant of Android produced by China’s Alibaba, resulted in a clash with Google which saw Acer abruptly pull out of its partnership with Alibaba.
(11) The 5,5-dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione (DMO) method for the determination of intracellular pH has been adapted to Acer pseudoplatanus cells cultivated in liquid medium.
(12) Unlike most tonoplast ATPases, the vacuolar ATPase of Acer pseudoplatanus cells (Km = 0.4 mM) was strongly inhibited by vanadate (I50 = 10 microM).
(13) 33 kDa in intact cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus).
(14) Laptops The 15.6" Acer Aspire E1-571 weighs 2.45kg, has a 2.6GHz Intel Core i5 processor, a 750GB hard drive, webcam and a DVD drive and is £399.99 at Currys .
(15) Convertible laptops The Acer Iconia W510 has a detachable keyboard and a 10.1" touchscreen, which can be used on its own as a tablet.
(16) The regulation of the cytoplasmic and vacuolar pH values (pHc and pHv) in sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) cells was analyzed using 31P and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(17) Profits from PCs have slumped, and it is being challenged by Asian rivals, Lenovo, Asus and Acer.
(18) Actively dividing callus cells of higher plants (Petroselinum crispum, Daucus carota, Acer pseudoplatanus) were used to detect the primary gene product of rDNA in vivo.
(19) Transcription of amyloplast DNA in a heterotrophic line of cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) appeared to be greatly suppressed.
(20) Golgi complex and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) were isolated from suspension-cultured cells of sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) by stepwise sucrose density gradient centrifugation using protoplasts as starting material.
Carnivorous
Definition:
(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.