(n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results would suggest that N-terminal acetylation and C-terminal proteolytic cleavage are important post-translational modifications of the forms of Amia beta-endorphin.
(2) Its existence in adult Amia, in most Osteoglossomorpha, and in many non-euteleostean bony fishes suggests that its persistence in the adult stage is a primitive trait of bony fishes, and its absence in the Notopteroidei (with the exception of Hiodon) is a derived condition.
(3) The suppressor mutations had therefore dissociated the two properties associated with a mutation in the amiA cistron, namely aminopterin resistance and isoleucine sensitivity.
(4) However, the two distributions of integration efficiencies of amiA mutants arisen either in strain Cl(3) or strain 401 are significantly different.
(5) Amino acid metabolism was examined in mitochondria from the lateral red muscle of a teleost (lake char, Salvelinus namaycush) and a nonteleost fish (bowfin, Amia calva).
(6) Yellow corpuscles from the ventral surface of the anterior kidney in bowfins (Amia calva L.) converted [7-3H]pregnenolone to radioactive 11-deoxycortisol, cortisol, and corticosterone in vitro.
(7) In pneumococcal transformation a particular point mutation belonging to the amiA locus is able markedly to enhance recombination frequency when crossed with any other markers of this gene.
(8) A new technique is presented for determining the volume of extracellular space in bowfin (Amia calva) brain during in vitro incubation.
(9) Kinetic analyses of ligand binding indicate that the Bohr and Root effects of Amia calva hemoglobins are best explained by changes in both the "on" and "off" constants.
(10) It was first observed in two-point crosses between an amiA mutation (amiA36) carrying this sequence and other closely linked mutants of the locus.
(11) Homologous peptides belonging to the pancreatic polypeptide (PP) family were isolated from the pancreas of a teleostean fish, the American eel (Anguilla rostrata), an holostean fish, the bowfin (Amia calva) and an elasmobranch fish, the skate (Raja rhina), and their primary structures were determined.
(12) The two species of holosteans studied, Amia calva and Lepisosteus platyrhincus, exhibited changes of melanophore index (melanosome aggregation), indicating responses to MCH and to melatonin but no response to norepinephrine (NE).
(13) The nephron of adult bowfin, Amia calva, was described using light and electron microscopic techniques.
(14) Thus, the majority of quinacrine-induced mutants at the amiA locus of pneumococcus consists of frameshift mutations.
(15) The number of spontaneous amiA mutants, estimated by two methods, was found to be higher in strain 401 than in strain Cl(3).
(16) Amethopterin-resistant mutants belonging to the amiA locus were used for these investigations.
(17) The distribution of integration efficiencies of independent mutations spontaneously occurring in the amiA locus was determined in two strains of pneumococcus.
(18) The majority of the AMIA in all the animals was anti-idiotypic and wholly anti-idiotypic in the TLI animals.
(19) The primary structure of insulin from a holostean fish, the bowfin (Amia calva), was established as: A-chain: Gly-Ile-Val-Glu-Gln-Cys-Cys-Leu-Lys-Pro-Cys-Thr-Ile-Tyr-Glu-Met-Glu- Lys-Tyr-Cys-Asn B-chain: Ala-Ala-Ser-Gln-His-Leu-Cys-Gly-Ser-His-Leu-Val-Glu-Ala-Leu-Phe-Leu- Val-Cys-Gly-Glu-Ser-Gly-Phe-Phe-Tyr-Asn-Pro-Asn-Lys-Ser This amino acid sequence contains several substitutions (methionine at A16, phenylalanine at B16 and serine at B22) at sites that have been strongly conserved in other vertebrate species and that may be expected to influence biological activity.
(20) Ammonia-N was the major form of nonfaceal nitrogen excreted by L. amia and excretion rates were temperature-dependent.
Amma
Definition:
(n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wondered whether Amma felt like more of a mother to her than her real mother.
(2) Backed by big names such as Jessica Chastain, Juliette Binoche, Queen Latifah, Freida Pinto and Amma Asante, it will announce its first project at Cannes in May.
(3) We've seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven't been – what they've been is industry fads Amma Asante “At this time last year a lot of questions I was getting from the press and people in the industry was ‘do you think we’ve hit a turning point?’ And it was a question that was nagging at me as well: have we finally hit a point where we’ve made a breakthrough?” “I was worried because we’ve seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven’t been – what they’ve been is industry fads.
(4) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
(5) This piece was amended on 23 February 2015 to correct the spelling of Amma Asante’s name.
(6) The effects of acetylethylcholine mustard and its aziridinium derivative (AMMA) on acetylcholine (ACh) release and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) binding were studied in rat cortical synaptosomes.
(7) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
(8) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - "mother of immortal bliss", otherwise known simply as Amma, or "mum" - is said to be the divine embodiment of pure, selfless love.
(9) I've been to many hospitals," he said, gesturing to his shoulders and knees, "but once Amma is hugging me, all my problems will be gone, for sure."
(10) Since then, she had spent everything she had on Amma's organisation, taking summer jobs and using money left to her by her grandparents to pay for trips to Amritapuri, before moving here permanently four years ago.
(11) Devotees buy apples, oranges and bananas from stalls next to the stage to give Amma as an offering when they go up to get a hug.
(12) There's a cafe that serves perfect cappuccinos, lattes, pizzas and burgers, an in-house travel agent, an internet centre and a souvenir stand that sells everything from books, posters, DVDs and CDs to Amma dolls, calendars, fridge magnets and soap.
(13) It was shown that solutions of 3-AMMA were rather stable in weak acid and neutral media and degraded at pH greater than 9.0.
(14) She was 22, but hadbeen a devotee since she was 12, after she had her first hug on one of Amma's European tours.
(15) But for Amma Attar, who has spent more than a month living with 36 family members in a UN school in Gaza after fleeing her home amid shelling and shooting, it is close to a miracle.
(16) AMMA and oxotremorine both reduced the basal and 30 mM K+-induced release of newly synthesized [3H]ACh in dose-dependent manners over a 2.5-min period.
(17) My hug with Amma felt like an intimate experience, but it's one she has already shared with more than 30 million people around the world.
(18) AMMA (50 microM) reduced high-affinity choline uptake and ACh synthesis by greater than 90% in this tissue, but these effects did not account for the [3H]ACh release inhibition, because they were not atropine sensitive and hemicholinium-3 had no effect on [3H]ACh release under the conditions used in these studies, i.e., after extracellular [3H]choline was washed out.
(19) For Pikser the makeup of the academy is an extension of the industry as a whole: “Hollywood has created an audience and an expectation and the racism of society is built into the business model.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amma Asante, right, directs Sarah Gadon and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle.
(20) The inhibition of basal and 30 mM K+-induced [3H]ACh release by AMMA (10-250 microM) was blocked by 2 microM atropine during a 2.5-min release incubation, but not during a 30-min release incubation.