(1) On the one hand was the condition found in many parts of the world of bovine enzootic haematuria with uncertain aetiology and, on the other, the investigations conducted on the acute radiomimetic cattle bracken poisoning under laboratory conditions.
(2) Mammary cancer was also induced in Sprague-Dawley rats fed a bracken diet.
(3) Inbred strain ACI rats of both sexes were divided into 4 groups; Group 1 received a diet containing the unprocessed bracken dried at a room temperature of below 30 degrees, Group 2 received a diet containing bracken dried at 70 approximately 90 degrees with a hot, forced draft, and Group 3 received the diet containing processed bracken that had been minced to a paste-like consistency using a mechanical chopper.
(4) Two glucosides to enhance histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells were isolated from rhizomes of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) by column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and droplet counter-current chromatography, and named braxin A1 and A2.
(5) Powdered bracken fern mixed with a basic commercial diet (1:4 by weight) was fed to a group of 40 ICR strain mice for 20 weeks after the implantation of a glass bead into the bladder.
(6) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(7) Thirteen cows maintained on natural bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) were analyzed cytogenetically.
(8) In animals experimentally immunosuppressed with azathioprine "bracken type" hemangiomas developed in the bladder lining.
(9) It was proved that PT is the carcinogenic principle present in bracken fern, inducing mammary cancer and multiple ileal tumors in high incidences when given orally to female Sprague-Dawley rats.
(10) Here, Main, Sidney Bracken, 65, Paul Radley, 52, and David Robinson, 63, are cooking an outdoor breakfast, after hanging a huge banner around the ramparts of the fort.
(11) The possible carcinogenicity of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum, common name: "Broto de Samambaia") which is used as food by the population of Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and neighboring areas, was studied in rats.
(12) The present study compared results obtained for 62 normally developing preschool children on the Bracken Basic Concept Scale, the Preschool Language Scale, and the Slossen Intelligence Test to determine whether scores on the tests correlated and were equivalent.
(13) The route leads past Bleamoss Beck, then winds its way through the bracken landscape before crossing a grassy hollow to the foot of Wrynose Pass.
(14) Bracken-grazing animals are also heavily immunosuppressed.
(15) Dose dependent toxicity was observed in bracken fern (p less than 0.001).
(16) The carcinogenicity of bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum, was demonstrated most clearly by the experiment of Evans and Mason in 1965.
(17) Histologic examination of the urinary bladders of albino rats fed bracken fern (Pteris aqulinum) showed epithelial hyperplasia in all test animals after 3 weeks of feeding and nuclear abnormalities at 4 to 6 weeks.
(18) Evidence is presented to shown that this is associated with the presence of bracken fern on high incidence farms and that many of the carcinomas arise in pre-existing virus-induced papillomas.
(19) The two have led to the recognition of the long term cancer dangers of bracken consumption and the vulnerability of a wide variety of species of animals.
(20) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
Thicket
Definition:
(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(2) Only one terminal per thicket was labeled by injections in the gracile nucleus.
(3) We have just come through an epochal political event that saw the repeated claim by voters that they couldn’t make their way through the thicket of facts, half-facts and rhetoric put before them.
(4) With Estonia one of the most sparsely populated countries in the EU, the border is largely rural and in many places densely thicketed and overgrown.
(5) For 45 minutes, Arjen Robben twisted and turned with the ball only to find himself confronted by an impenetrable thicket of blue-shirted Brazil defenders.
(6) Flies restricted to the riverine gallery forest in the dry season become dispersed into approximately 1 km of the Acacia thickets in the wet season.
(7) Labour's Frank Field, one of the MPs pressing for a crackdown, claimed Eastleigh had produced a change of heart, but ministers argue there is still a thicket of EU regulations on free movement of workers that they have been studying since the autumn.
(8) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.
(9) And perhaps the finding and matching of objects mimics tasks our brains are good at, but don't get to do very much any more, like searching for ripe fruit in tangled thickets, or picking stones out of dried lentils.
(10) Places like the Elephant and Castle in south London, which had been replanned so that tall slab blocks formed squares around dense thickets of trees, had made mistakes about how cities "worked".
(11) But one idea has emerged through the thickets of ideological conflict and, as one teacher put it to me, "it is an idea with wings".
(12) In a nearby thicket, an Afghan kickboxer says the constant tension has made him take up smoking.
(13) And immediately you stumble into a thicket of problems that the passage of 25 years in any other branch of the media would automatically raise.
(14) In the rostral dorsal accessory olive they synapsed most frequently on dendrites that directly contacted other dendrites, forming dendritic thickets.
(15) Blood-meal squashes from tsetse collected in the Roo Valley and Obaluanda areas and in the Ruma, Otuok, and Rari thickets showed that the important hosts were bushbuck and bushpig.
(16) The disease is associated with the presence of the tsetse Glossina tachinoides and Glossina palpalis which is plentiful and widespread throughout the division as well as in thickets along the streams in the area.
(17) Visitors who pass through MK as it was intended, by car, see no recognisable town at all: there’s a grid of broad roads and endless roundabouts, with houses and industrial estates hidden behind grassy banks and thickets of willow, pine and dogwood.
(18) But we have over-complicated clinical research with a thicket of approvals and contracts that do little for patients or communities.
(19) Typically the dendritic thickets were composed of two or three dendrites that received input from more than one round vesicle-containing synaptic terminal.
(20) Now the mention of her name makes me think of a delightfully full thicket after seeing hers twice in one week: first in the film Crystal Fair and the Magical Cactus, and then in Girls .