(n.) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.
(n.) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.
(n.) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
(n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.
(n.) The golden plover.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a lubber.
(n.) A small black water insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) No brown bullheads of ages 6 or 7 were collected in the Black River, while these age groups composed 18% of the catch in Old Woman Creek.
(2) The endocrine pancreas of the bullhead catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, and the channel catfish, I. punctatas was studied by light and electron microscopy.
(3) In bullhead hepatocytes, epinephrine induced a biphasic [Ca2+]i response, with an initial transient rise followed by a sustained component; this response was virtually abolished in the absence of extracellular Ca2+.
(4) Ultrastructural, functional, and cytochemical characteristics of resident sinusoidal macrophages (RSM) in brown bullhead (Ictalurus nebulosus) liver were examined.
(5) Control bullhead brains had higher concentrations of glycogen, ATP, creatine phosphate (CrP), and glucose than control trout.
(6) PaO2 and ventilation measurements in Salmo gairdnerii and Ictalurus melas (brown bullhead) were performed during progressive or step changes of PwO2.
(7) Fresh or ripened spores of M. cotti and M. cerebralis were not infectious for bullheads or rainbow trout, respectively.
(8) The cerebellar afferents in the bullhead catfish (Teleostei) were labeled by relying on the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP).
(9) Established cell lines from brown bullhead catfish (BB) and rainbow trout (RTG-2) and primary cultures of cells derived from gill, fin, and gonad tissues from brown bullhead catfish were evaluated for use as bioindicators in the neutral red cytotoxicity assay.
(10) Black bullheads were able to accumulate 60Co from water.
(11) Possible mechanisms for elimination of the superfluous axons observed in the white muscle of the developing brown bullhead are discussed.
(12) The in vitro metabolism of [3H]benzo[a]pyrene (BP) and [14C]benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol (BP-7,8-diol) by liver of brown bullhead (Ictalurus nebulosus) was characterized, as was the formation and persistence of BP-DNA adducts in vivo.
(13) No conversion occurred in the control tissue with the temperature maintained at 12 degrees C. No qualitative difference in the incorporation of [(3)H]leucine into proinsulin and its conversion into insulin at 12 degrees and 22 degrees C could be demonstrated between islet tissue from fish acclimated to less than 12 degrees C or to 22 degrees C. The results suggest that the enzyme(s) responsible for converting proinsulin into insulin in the bullhead may be temperature sensitive with low activity at 12 degrees C.
(14) A 3-MC-type of cytochrome P-450 appears to be primarily responsible for the oxidation of B f Q by control brown bullhead liver microsomes, whereas a phenobarbital-inducible type of cytochrome P-450 seems to be involved in the metabolism of B f Q by control rat liver microsomes.
(15) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(16) These age and length distributions are consistent with the hypothesis that brown bullheads in the Black River were subjected to an age-selective mortality associated with high prevalences of liver carcinoma.
(17) Using degeneration staining methods, central projections of the olfactory tracts in the bullhead catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus were studied.
(18) Liver microsomes from rats were considerably more active in metabolizing benzo[f]quinoline (B f Q) than those from brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus).
(19) Insulin biosynthesis in the brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Le Sueur), was studied by measuring the incorporation in vitro of [(3)H]leucine into proteins of the principal islet.
(20) The antiviral effect of acyclovir (ACV; 9-(2-hydroxyethoxymethyl)guanine) on the replication of channel catfish virus (CCV), a poikilothermic herpesvirus, in brown bullhead cells (BB) was studied in vitro.
Sculpin
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
(n.) A large cottoid market fish of California (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus); -- called also bighead, cabezon, scorpion, salpa.
(n.) The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential growth of the sculpin lateral line system may be related to the feeding behavior of the animal and to differences in the ambient levels of water noise to which larval and adult fish are exposed.
(2) Due to an anteroflexion of the longitudinal axis and a disposition of the gonadotropic (GTH) cells at the periphery of the gland and surrounding the neurointermediate lobe (NIL), the classical subdivisions of the teleost adenohypophysis were not strictly applicable to the sculpin.
(3) The response of sculpin fibres to stretch during tetanus was similar to that reported for frog twitch fibres.
(4) Tested at 20 degrees C, myoglobins from salmon and sculpin bound O2 with lower affinity than myoglobins from the rat or sperm whale.
(5) n. is described from one of 33 staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus).
(6) Insulin from the principal islets of the teleost fish, Cottus scorpius (daddy sculpin), has been isolated and sequenced.
(7) High performance liquid chromatography using PMSS-C18 resin was applied to separate variant-complicated histone H1 from liver of a Baikal lake endemic fish sand sculpin (Cottus Kessleri Dybow).
(8) There was significant seasonal variation in metHb levels for three of the five species, the highest values occurring during the winter months; cunners (Tautogolabrus adspersus) 15.6% in winter and 10.1% in the summer, shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) 20.0% in the winter and 8.19% in the summer, longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus) 17.3-21.6% in the winter and 8.12% in the summer.
(9) Very high infections were found with a maximum of nearly 300 larvae in one sculpin.
(10) The percent of higher chlorinated PCB homologues (5 and 6 chlorine atoms per PCB molecule) increased from 54-56% of the total PCB in plankton and M. relicta, to 61% in P. hoyi, to 74% in sculpins.
(11) Infections of this magnitude have so far not been reported from sculpins or any other fish species of this size.
(12) Pituitary glands from the longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus) were sectioned transversely into "cephalic" and "caudal" fragments and cultured for 24 hr in medium containing [7-3H]androstenedione.
(13) The impairment of renal function after CP administration resulted in increased serum urea in rat, uric acid in pigeon and magnesium in black sculpin.
(14) We therefore synthesized sculpin PP and aPY-amide by the solid phase method and investigated their central and peripheral effects on feeding and blood pressure, respectively.
(15) Presumably as a result of the amino acid substitutions, sculpin insulin does not readily form crystals containing zinc-insulin hexamers, despite the presence of the coordinating B10 His.
(16) The primary structures of three peptides from extracts from the pancreatic islets of the daddy sculpin (Cottus scorpius) and three analogous peptides from the islets of the flounder (Platichthys flesus), two species of teleostean fish, have been determined by automated Edman degradation.
(17) The binding characteristics of biliverdin to its carrier protein in the blue-green blood of Clinocottus analis (woolly sculpin) and Anguilla japonica (freshwater eel) were operationally defined by various chemical probing methods and spectra analysis.
(18) The amino acid sequences of the peptides suggest that, in the sculpin, prosomatostatin II is cleaved at a dibasic amino acid residue processing site (corresponding to Lys61-Arg62 in anglerfish preprosomatostatin II).
(19) Immunostaining of brain and pituitary sections of teleost fishes (eels, salmonidae, cyprinidae, gourami, sculpin, mullet) with anti porcine galanin (GAL) revealed the presence of immunoreactive (ir) perikarya and a rich network of fibers.
(20) Two marine species, the long-horned sculpin and the flounder, and three freshwater species, the common goldfish, the mottled sculpin, and the common shiner, were used.