(n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kidney of the bowfin possesses an abundant supply of renal corpuscles with each consisting of a glomerulus and a Bowman's capsule of visceral (podocyte) and parietal layers.
(2) Undecussated ipsilateral retinal projections, as present in the bowfin, are a widely distributed character in vertebrates and appear to be plesiomorphic for vertebrates.
(3) 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).
(4) Intracellular recordings were obtained from biphasic- and triphasic-type horizontal cells (C cells) in the retina of the bowfin.
(5) 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.
(6) A new technique is presented for determining the volume of extracellular space in bowfin (Amia calva) brain during in vitro incubation.
(7) The posterior pretectal nucleus is relatively small in the bowfin, and the distribution of a small, versus a large, posterior pretectal nucleus in Teleostei and Halecomorphi suggests that this nucleus was small plesiomorphically.
(8) 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.
(9) The rate of glutamine oxidation by bowfin mitochondria exceeds that of lake char mitochondria, and the bowfin displays correspondingly higher levels of mitochondrial phosphate-dependent glutaminase.
(10) The nephron of adult bowfin, Amia calva, was described using light and electron microscopic techniques.
(11) The findings in bowfin and other species suggest that both feedback and direct pathways shape the depolarizing response of C cells.
(12) 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.
(13) To assess the role of triiodothyronine (T3) in mediating short-term changes in metabolism, such as those occurring in circadian patterns, we examined the effects of intraperitoneal injection of T3 on the oxidation of substrates by isolated mitochondria from liver of the bowfin, Amia calva, and red muscle and liver of the lake char, Salvelinus namaycush.
(14) Blood from the primitive holostean fish, the bowfin, Amia calva, contains 2 mo of ATP per mol of hemoglobin.
(15) The pattern of retinofugal projections in the bowfin is similar to that in other non-teleost actinopterygian fishes and in teleosts in most regards.
(16) Activity of sulfated CCK8 in bowfin, a holostean fish, suggests sensitivity of gallbladder to CCK-related intestinal hormones may be a general feature of osteichthyeans.
(17) Three hours after intraperitoneal injection of T3, oxidation of some substrates by mitochondria isolated from the liver of the bowfin was reduced.
(18) The retinofugal projections in the bowfin, a non-teleost actinopterygian, were studied by autoradiographic and horseradish peroxidase methods, and the cytoarchitecture of retinorecipient regions of the diencephalon was analyzed with serially sectioned, Bodian stained material.
(19) In the bowfin CCK immunostained cells were detected only in the anterior and mid-intestine; the stomach and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract were negative.
(20) The effect of hypophysectomy on chloride balance was examined in young-of-the-year bowfin, Amia calva.
Burbot
Definition:
(n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (sigma PCBs), chlorobenzenes and chlorinated pesticides was studied in burbot (Lota lota) from eight remote locations along a northwesterly transect from northwestern Ontario to the Mackenzie River delta in Canada.
(2) The new species studied are the goldeye (Hiodon alosoides), the yellow eel (Anguilla anguilla), the archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix), the goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the burbot (Lota lota).
(3) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(4) The level of general lipids in the liver of burbot and stickleback infected with plerocercoids of D. latum and D. vogeli, respectively, decreases.
(5) A reconstructed separate fat image was used for studying the fat content of the liver of 12 dead and six living fasting burbots (Lota lota) in a 0.04 T magnetic field with olive oil as a reference.
(6) The burbots tolerated transport and repeated anesthesia and appear well suited for experimental ultrasound studies.
(7) Six live burbot fish (Lota lota) were examined on the 1st, 7th and 15th day after capture.
(8) Although the highest prevalences were found in adult burbot (Lota lota) in two of the areas, these fish are more likely a blind end in the life cycle of T. nodulosus in the present case.
(9) Intracellular recordings were made from morphologically identified hair cells in the lateral line canal organs of the burbot Lota lota.
(10) Simultaneous parasitism of plerocercoids of D. latum and Triaenophorus nodulosus in the liver of burbot causes especially great changes in the lipoid metabolism.
(11) The differences in fat concentration among the burbot livers were also clearly shown.
(12) The method was tested on a normal human thigh, on a human liver with confirmed fatty infiltration, and on the livers of four live burbots.
(13) They explain how burbot was the suspected food responsible for the auto-intoxication and how the X ray examination of the vertebrae of this fish allowed them to support the diagnosis of "tetrodonic" poisoning; the inquest did not allow to state precisely where the fish was caught.
(14) This role is exemplified through four cases: the Zermatt typhoid epidemics of 1963, a sanitary survey in Ouagadougou, the bioaccumulation of pollutants in the burbots of Swiss waters and the damages of earthwork in developing countries (roads and dams).
(15) The living burbot is an applicable test animal for studying the hepatic fat content with MR.
(16) The post-synaptic action of efferent fibres on lateral line organs in the burbot was investigated with extracellular electrodes.2.
(17) Cystobranchus mammillatus, a parasite of burbot, is widely distributed in the tributaries of Baikal.
(18) Significant declines in concentrations of PCB congeners, DDT isomers (sigma DDT), lindane, dieldrin, and mirex in burbot liver were found with increasing north latitude.