(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.
(a.) Pertaining to the Anseres.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was especially active in hydrolyzing carnosine and anserine, preferring dipeptides with histidine in the C-terminal position.
(2) The changes in the plantaris were associated with increases in the concentration (mumol per g wet weight) of anserine (18%) and carnosine (50%).
(3) Carnosine and anserine have been measured in samples of breast and leg muscles from three turkeys.
(4) Quadriceps rehabilitation, pes anserines transfers and semimembranosus transfers were thought not to influence anterolateral rotary instability.
(5) Carnosine, homocarnosine, and anserine are present in high concentrations in the muscle and brain of many animals and humans.
(6) Carnosine increased, whereas both anserine and L-1-methyl-histidine decreased the inhibitory effect of calpastatin on calpain II.
(7) No anserine was detected in the eggs and yolk sac, but yolk-free fry significantly increased its concentration after hatching.
(8) Imidazole and anserine activate membrane-bound phosphodiesterase, while caffeine inhibits it.
(9) This manuscript describes the production, characterization and use in immunolocalization studies of antisera directed against carnosine and anserine.
(10) Two related dipeptides homocarnosine (gamma-aminobutyryl-L-histidine) and anserine (beta-alanyl-N-methyl-L-histidine) are present in the CNS of mammals and birds, respectively.
(11) Three days later, soleus, plantaris, and gastrocnemius muscles of the sham hindlimb and the contralateral denervated hindlimb were excised and analyzed for intracellular concentrations of 23 free amino acids and the dipeptides carnosine and anserine.
(12) The enzyme activation constant was found to be equal to 20 mM, and the inhibition constant corresponded to 22 mM for both carnosine and anserine.
(13) The level of phosphodiesterase activity in the heavy fraction correlates with its sensitivity to imidazole, anserine and caffeine.
(14) Carnosine, anserine and L-1-methyl-histidine activated muscle calpain II assayed at 2.5 mM Ca2+.
(15) It is assumed that the skeletal muscle dipeptides carnosine and anserine are highly effective as natural antioxidants.
(16) The effect of various muscle conditions on anserine and carnosine contents suggests that these peptides have some physiological role in muscular functions.
(17) A variety of imidazoles closely related to carnosine and anserine are inactive, even after addition of transition metal ions.
(18) Anserine and carnosine in the muscle of growing rats were measured to explore the effect of dietary methionine.
(19) One had mild pain and one had moderate pain attributed to pes anserine bursitis.
(20) The anserine antiserum is highly specific for anserine while the carnosine antiserum cross-reacts with all three dipeptides.
Geese
Definition:
(n.) pl. of Goose.
(pl. ) of Goose
Example Sentences:
(1) Unilateral post-ganglionic denervation in geese prevented the changes in [RNA] and [RNA]:[DNA] that occurred in the intact gland of birds given salt water for 24 hr; denervation had no significant effect in birds on fresh water throughout.
(2) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
(3) Geese kept at 4.5 degrees C. trended toward greater fertility than geese housed but subjected to natural temperature variations.
(4) The prevalence of influenza varied greatly among the common waterfowl species: mallards 42%, black ducks 30%, blue-winged teal 11%, wood ducks 2%, and Canada geese 0%.
(5) But the company's permission to explore there was dependent on its impact on migrating birds, including pink-footed geese and whooper swans .
(6) Clinical signs in the live geese were weakness, lethargy, anorexia, emaciation and bile stained diarrhea.
(7) The live geese (155) were captured and moved to nearby freshwater wetlands where most apparently survived.
(8) In geese with one salt gland removed, no indication of compensatory growth of the remaining gland was evident in birds kept on fresh water for 24 days.
(9) The segmentum accelerans in geese is a constriction in the caudal end of the primary bronchus.
(10) Geese were trapped and blood samples were obtained in each of 4 consecutive years, 1966-69.
(11) The high prevalence of this condition in white-fronted geese suggested a genetic influence.
(12) Regional blood flow was measured using the radioactive microsphere method in unanesthetized Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) and bar-headed geese (Anser indicus) breathing 21, 10 and 5% O2.
(13) All species showed upper alimentary distress with mortalities occurring in the geese.
(14) Migratory ducks, Canada geese, and sandhill crane from the Pacific North American Flyway have been screened for Campylobacter spp.
(15) The ventilatory activity of the anterior and posterior groups of air sacs was simulated in unidirectionally-ventilated geese and the resultant flow of air in the mediodorsal secondary bronchi was used as an indicator of the route which air followed through the lung.
(16) These studies were carried out to compare certain hepatic microsomal drug-metabolizing enzymes of quail, ducks, geese, chickens, turkeys and rats.
(17) Although the introduction of these chemicals has been beneficial in reducing environmental contamination, some side-effects on wildlife have still been discernible and carbophenothion has now been withdrawn from use in Scotland owing to the deaths of wintering geese from carbophenothion poisoning.
(18) Fossil evidence suggests that these two groups of geese had a common ancestor 4-5 million years ago.
(19) Liver slices from geese, ducks (Aylesbury X Pekin) and chickens contained low UDP-glucuronyl transferase and high sulphate conjugation enzyme activities, whereas the reverse was found in Khaki-Campbell ducks.
(20) Psittacosis virus was not recovered from any of the birds examined, but a percentage of migrating geese had psittacosis antibodies.