(1) Taken together, these findings suggest that Caiman, like mammals, contain a thalamic reticular nucleus but that thalamic organization in Caiman differs significantly from that of mammals.
(2) In contrast to those obtained from duck, goose and caiman, delta-crystallin isolated from the pigeon lens possessed very little argininosuccinate lyase activity.
(3) Five days after the removal of the foreign bodies from the stomach the caiman was alert and active and showed a normal appetite.
(4) The cochlear microphonic (CM) latency in caiman is unaffected by stimulus intensity and by cooling of the animal.
(5) Vibration measurements were made at a number of positions near the proximal (basal) end of the basilar membrane, and on the columella footplate, of Caiman crocodilus using a capacitive probe.
(6) There were four primary divisions of the spinal nerves in the thoracic region of the caiman, from ventral to dorsal: the intercostal nerve, the IC nerve, the Lo nerve, and the dorsal main trunk.
(7) These results are consistent with previous reports that the SN and AVT project to the dorsolateral and medial portions of the VLA, and strongly support the theory that the caiman VLA contains cell populations homologous to those found in the mammalian corpus striatum.
(8) Three juvenile captive spectacled caimans (Caiman sclerops) had scattered, gray-white, circular, 1- to 3-mm skin lesions.
(9) Immunological comparison of inactive and active delta-crystallins from the chicken, duck and caiman lenses established the apparent structural similarity of all delta-crystallins to the authentic enzyme regarding some of common surface epitopes, yet they are not completely identical.
(10) This outbreak closely resembled the disease described elsewhere in 3 juvenile captive caimans.
(11) The histological and physiological effects of the removal of superficial corneous epidermal materials have been studied in several squamate species and a caiman.
(12) Motilin-immunoreactive cells in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of Caiman latirostris and Caiman crocodilus were investigated using region specific antisera for porcine and canine motilin molecules.
(13) The presence of a pretectal nucleus with neural connections and topographic location similar to nucleus pretectalis of Caiman has been described in lizards and pigeons.
(14) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(15) Representative sonagrams of the distress calls of three other species of crocodilians (Caiman crocodilus, Crocodylus niloticus, and Crocodylus siamensis) are presented and compared with sonagrams of alligator distress calls.
(16) Caiman epsilon-crystallin similar to the previously characterized duck epsilon-crystallin appeared to possess a genuine and stable LDH activity as detected by nitro blue tetrazolium staining on polyacrylamide gels and conventional kinetic assays.
(17) When the coding segments, including both framework and complementarity-determining regions, of these genes and the murine probe sequences are compared by metric analysis, it is apparent that the caiman genes are only slightly more related to each other than to the mammalian sequence, consistent with significant preservation of nucleotide sequence over an extended period of phylogenetic time.
(18) The subcoeruleus nuclei are considerably larger in the caiman than in other reptilian species including turtles and lizards and closely resemble the subcoeruleus nuclei of birds in terms of position and anterior-posterior extent.
(19) The pineal is also ubiquitous except for the hagfish (Eptatretus) and the caiman (Caiman).
(20) These species occur in Crocodylus, Caiman and Alligator and are characterized by flat lips with alate margins, without anterior rostral plate, interlocking processes or dentigerous ridges, with weakly developed interlabia, by an irregular-shaped ventriculus, excretory pore behind or between the subventral lips, and by the presence of lateral alae or cuticular thickenings in the oesophageal region.
Dracaena
Definition:
(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of Dracaena loureiri, a Thai medicinal plant possessing anti-bacterial activity, has led to the isolation of two new representatives, 1 and 2, of a rare skeleton of homoisoflavans.
(2) Shoot tips of actively growing terminals were selected as explants for Cordyline and Dracaena, and lateral buds were employed for Scindapsus and Syngonium.
(3) The first four members of a new class of natural products, the retrodihydrochalcones, have been isolated from the leaves of Dracaena loureiri.
(4) Procedures were established for clonal multiplication in vitro of Cordyline terminalis Kunth, Dracaena godseffiana Hort., Scindapsus aureus Engler, and Syngonium podophyllum Schott.