(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.
Dogfish
Definition:
(n.) A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.
(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.
(n.) The burbot of Lake Erie.
Example Sentences:
(1) In other dogfish, glomerular filtration rate, urine flow, and Na and K excretory rates were measured for 3 days following implantation of desoxycorticosterone (DOCA), adrenocorticotropin (ACTH), or spironolactone; a control group was given no drug.
(2) The results showed that dogfish lenses developed superficial opacities due to near-UV exposure.
(3) The N-terminal tridecapeptide sequence was identical with the proposed structure of dogfish alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH).
(4) The "apo" lactate dehydrogenase structure was solved by use of the known apo-M4 dogfish lactate dehydrogenase molecule as a starting model.
(5) In addition, the interrenal cells of the common dogfish are strikingly rich in microfilament-like inclusions.
(6) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(7) It is concluded that, despite a broader specificity, the activity spectrum of dogfish enzyme is, in many respects, similar to that of calf chymosin.
(8) Tissue from the digitiform rectal gland of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, was fixed briefly by formaldehyde perfusion and studied for the specificity and localization of p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (NPP'ase) activity.
(9) A melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) has been isolated from extracts of the neurointermediate lobe of the pituitary of the dogfish Squalus acanthias by gel-filtration and ion-exchange chromatography.
(10) Initial-rate studies were made of the oxidation of L-glutamate by NAD+ and NADP+ catalysed by highly purified preparations of dogfish liver glutamate dehydrogenase.
(11) Aqueous humor dynamics were studied in the dogfish, Squalus acanthias, using isotopically labeled inulin, Na+, Cl-, and HCO-3.
(12) The spiracular sense organs of the little skate, Raja erinacea, and the smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, respond to movements of the hyomandibula-cranial joint.
(13) The primary structure of glucagon isolated from the intestine of the common dogfish, Scyliorhinus canicula, was established as H S E G T F T S D Y S K Y M D N R R A K D F V Q W L M N T. The peptide shows four substitutions compared with human glucagon: Glu-3 for Gln, Met-14 for Leu, Asn-16 for Ser and Lys-20 for Gln.
(14) Glycogen debranching enzyme (4-alpha-glucanotransferase amylo-1,6-glucosidase, EC 2.4.1.25 + 3.2.1.33) was purified 140-fold from dogfish muscle in a rapid, high-yield procedure that takes advantage of a strong binding of the enzyme to glycogen, and its quantitative adsorption to concanavalin A-Sepharose only when the polysaccharide is present.
(15) The skin of the dogfish in an exchanger for oxygen supplying 10% of oxygen requirements of other organs of the body in these experimental conditions (t = 13 degrees C).
(16) In marine fish (herring, dogfish shark, hagfish) FAO activities were all less than 15% that of rats and undetectable in hagfish.
(17) The dogfish enzyme has a higher pH optimum (8.5) and a broader spectrum of activity above and below its optimum than a commercial porcine lipase preparation (optimum, 7.5).
(18) The physiological effects of dogfish GnRH included the release of not only gonadotropin but also growth hormone from goldfish pituitary fragments.
(19) In this experiment, testicular tissues from different dogfish corresponding to the zones of lobules with spermatogonia (A), spermatocytes (B), early spermatids (C) and late spermatids (D) were dissected out and pooled.
(20) The vascular capacitance and volume distensibility of the isolated dogfish gut and segments of dogfish arteries and veins were investigated.