(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.
Mia
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(1) Five A delta-fiber MIAs and one C-fiber MIA did not respond to mechanical or heat stimuli but did respond to injection into the electrical RF of an artificial inflammatory soup containing histamine, bradykinin, prostaglandin E1, and serotonin.
(2) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
(3) The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself.” He took a lie detector and passed, Allen said, but Mia Farrow declined to do so.
(4) Three months after the use of gel was discontinued, the MIA value for plaque bacteria had returned to its original level.
(5) The difference in survival between patients with MIA-positive tumors and those with MIA-negative tumors was significant among patients with blood groups A and AB (P less than 0.001), but not among those with blood group B or O (P = 0.071 and 0.068, respectively).
(6) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
(7) However, MIA did get her Grammy moment, performing at the ceremony on the day her baby was due.
(8) We used MIA-15-5 to stain tissue sections from 149 patients with primary lung cancer whose clinico-pathological histories were well documented.
(9) With monoiodoacetate (MIA), respiration fell dramatically during the 4 h of substrate-free incubation.
(10) Use of the gel during a 3-month period resulted in a change in the pattern of sensitivity to cholorhexidine in the plaque flora as displayed by determination of the minimal inhibitory amount (MIA) of the drug in agar diffusion assays.
(11) To test this hypothesis, membranes of MIA PaCa-2 cells, a human dedifferentiated pancreatic cancer cell line, were incubated without hormone (control) or with 0.1 microM EGF or somatostatin analogue RC-160 for 1 hr at 4 degrees C to phosphorylate the 60-kDa protein.
(12) When normal LPS-stimulated B-lymphocytes were tested in the fibroblast-MIA, only part of the population infiltrated the monolayers.
(13) The NFL are ramping up their legal battle against MIA, demanding an additional $15.1m (£9.1m) in restitution for her middle-finger performance at the 2012 Super Bowl .
(14) Mia C51 cells have a doubling time of 12 hr and maintain many of the properties of the parent tumor, including the characteristic greenish color with high myeloperoxidase activity, an an aneuploid chromosomal pattern, and intact tumorigenicity.
(15) Several lines have been established; the one of longest duration, Mia C51, has been maintained for over 18 months and has undergone over 100 transfers.
(16) Young adults (N = 58) and older adults (N = 55) answered 30 questions extracted from three dimensions of the Metamemory in Adulthood (MIA) questionnaire: Capacity, Task and Strategy.
(17) Interaction of U937 cells was also abolished when they were treated with pertussis toxin (PT), an agent known to induce monocytosis in vivo, indicating that the MIA may serve as an in vitro simulation of the extravasation of blood borne cells.
(18) MIA binding was protein, temperature and time dependent with optimal binding at pH 8.0 or above.
(19) We're sitting on a hanging sofa in the shadows, and MIA is swinging away happily, drinking coffee.
(20) Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performed a parody of the smash hit Mamma Mia!