(1) "But if I had to suggest just one dish to take away from your whole Tokyo experience, there are so many good things to try, but just for the reason that it is is only available in Japan, I would pick fugu [the potentially deadly blowfish]."
(2) A few years ago, on a trip to Tokyo, I ate sperm from the fugu, the blowfish famed for the toxicity of its internal organs.
(3) Want to knock out the chef at his favourite food stall, steal the chef's clothes and then render his lunch deadly with the blowfish poison?
Toadfish
Definition:
(n.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.
(n.) The angler.
(n.) A swellfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anterior chamber of the toadfish swimbladder is lined by an extracellular layer.
(2) Kinetic analysis of L-leucine uptake by toadfish liver at 20 degrees C in vivo has been carried out after pulse injection of L-[14C]leucine into the hepatic portal vein.
(3) The bullfrog and toadfish proteins exist as homooligomers.
(4) Acclimation of toadfish to approximately 5% seawater (hyposmotic to plasma) did not alter the sensitivity of the perfused gills but reduced the apparent EC50 of rat AP on aortic rings to 3 x 10(-10) M. Extracts from O. beta atrium, ventricle, and brain also produced dilation of aortic rings, with ventricular extracts producing the greatest effect per milligram extracted tissue, suggesting that the ventricle may be a major site source of atriopeptin in fishes.
(5) Treatment of toadfish islet slices with alloxan markedly increased their permeability to D-mannitol-1-14C, which normally is restricted to the extracellular space.
(6) Metabolic rates were significantly higher in toadfish cell suspensions.
(7) These results indicate the presence of an electrogenic Na+-cotransport mechanism with specificity for beta-amino acids in the toadfish renal brush border.
(8) In nitrogen metabolism, glutamine synthetase displays a distribution pattern commensurate with its unique metabolic function in the liver of the ureogenic toadfish.
(9) ANF (10(-4) M) inhibited the BAP monooxygenase activity of MC microsomes from toadfish and eels and of BNF microsomes from toadfish.
(10) Activities of eight enzymes were measured in the sonic muscle of the gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta, to determine the metabolic poise of this unique tissue and to evaluate potential sex related differences in metabolism.
(11) The above results are useful as an aid in the understanding of an ongoing, comprehensive functional analysis of auditory and vestibular mechanisms in toadfish and complement previous work on the efferent vestibular and sound-producing motor systems.
(12) Toadfish bbmv also translocated L-alanine and L-glutamic acid in a Na+-dependent manner.
(13) Thynnascaris habena is redescribed from the oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau (Linnaeus), its type host, on the basis of examination of specimens collected from Massachusetts, Virginia, and Georgia.
(14) Contrary to existing mammalian models, short-term regulation of urea cycle activity can be ruled out for toadfish, since hormone treatments fail to influence the activity of two ornithine-urea cycle enzymes or the rate of hepatocyte-urea synthesis.
(15) Thus, in the latter group the lines of sight shifted cyclically from one side to the other about every 10-15 s. Eye movement responses in goldfish and toadfish were prototypical for two major functional groups.
(16) The efferent vestibular nuclei and nerves were studied in the toadfish, Opsanus tau, with morphological and electrophysiological techniques.
(17) Pretreatment of toadfish with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) decreased the mutagenicity of 2AA and increased the mutagenicities of BAP, AFB1 and DMBA, whereas, pretreatment of eels with MC increased the mutagenicities of BAP, 2AA and AFB1.
(18) Significant S9-dependent mutagenicity was observed for benzo[a]pyrene (BAP), 2-aminoanthracene (2AA), aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) and cyclophosphamide (CP) with hepatic S9 from untreated fish (UI S9) of both species and with renal S9 from untreated toadfish, although renal UI S9 was only marginally effective for activating AFB1.
(19) From this and other data, we conclude that toadfish sonic muscle can be classified as fast-twitch oxidative glycolytic or fast-twitch fatigue resistant.
(20) Standard reagents and techniques used in other vitamin B12 competitive binding assays can be used with the toadfish serum binder.