What's the difference between alcyonacea and gorgonian?

Alcyonacea


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

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Gorgonian


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.
  • (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lophotoxin, a diterpene lactone paralytic toxin from gorgonian corals of the genus Lophogorgia, inhibits [125I]-alpha-toxin binding to surface nicotinic receptors of BC3H-1 cells by irreversible occupation of the primary agonist sites.
  • (2) Dihydrosinularin and 11-epi-sinulariolide acetate have been isolated previously from soft corals which, together with gorgonians, are the richest sources of marine cembranoids.
  • (3) Lophotoxin is a diterpene lactone isolated from gorgonian corals.
  • (4) Brianolide (1), a new antiinflammatory diterpenoid of the briarein class, possessing a beta substituent at C-12 (R), has been isolated from the Okinawan gorgonian Briareum sp.
  • (5) Despite the considerable effort expended in the exploration of alternative, large-scale sources of eicosanoids, the first-discovered nonmammalian source--the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla--remains by far the most impressive.
  • (6) In gorgonian outlines, due to their limited multi-scale organization, we have found curved trends typical of non-fractal lines.
  • (7) This suggests that gorgonian growth mechanisms retain a self-similar design, which becomes evident only in species combining a large size with a high branch density.
  • (8) The organic matrix of spicules prepared from the gorgonian Pseudoplexaura flagellosa (Houttuyn) is alcianophilic.
  • (9) A new azulene pigment, 2,3-dihydrolinderazulene, has been isolated along with guaiazulene and linderazulene as bioactive metabolites from the gorgonian Acalycigorgia sp.
  • (10) Lophotoxin and lophotoxin analog-1 are uncharged cyclic diterpenes obtained from gorgonian corals.
  • (11) The unique chemical structure and covalent reactivity of these gorgonian coral toxins will undoubtedly allow further insights into the structure of the agonist recognition site.
  • (12) The biological and biochemical pharmacology of fuscoside, a novel anti-inflammatory marine natural product isolated from the Caribbean gorgonian Eunicea fusca, has recently been characterized using murine (part I) and human (part II) models of inflammation.
  • (13) The intercellular material of the gorgonian contains a galactose-specific lectin, as determined by double diffusion experiments and haemagglutination inhibition experiments using a series of galacto-glycoconjugates.
  • (14) This paper is a brief review of the diterpenoid chemistry of gorgonian corals of the genus Pseudopterogorgia.
  • (15) Praelolide is a new compound which was isolated out from the gorgonian, Menella praelonga (Ridley), collected from the South Sea of China at Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
  • (16) Crassin acetate, a lactonic cembrane diterpene, has been shown to be the principal antineoplastic agent present in the marine invertebrates (gorgonians) Pseudoplexaura porosa, P. flagellosa, P. wagenaari and P. crucis.
  • (17) Four species of gorgonians: three related pseudoplexaurids Pseudoplexaura porosa, P. flagellosa and P. wagenaari; and the unrelated Pseudopterogorgia americana, are sources of zooxanthellae capable, in purified broken cell preparations, of converting [14C]labeled farnesyl pyrophosphate into squalene.
  • (18) Prostaglandin A2 is a major constituent of the gorgonian Plexaura homomalla, and there is evidence that its biosynthesis involves a noncyclooxygenase pathway.
  • (19) Gorgonian growth has been hitherto studied mostly by investigating the influence of different environmental conditions on shape and orientation.
  • (20) Colony outlines of the gorgonian species Eunicella singularis, Eunicella cavolinii, Paramuricea clavata, and Lophogorgia ceratophyta have been digitized and their length measured by traveling along them with a series of logarithmically increasing steps.

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