(n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that the inhibition of CarAc by heavy metals occurs by binding of the sulfhydryl on the enzyme by the metals.
(2) The effect of administration of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI), lisinopril (Carace; 10-40 mg twice daily) and the calcium channel blocker, nifedipine (Adalat Retard; 20-40 mg twice daily) on ex vivo [45Ca2+] uptake by platelets from hypertensive diabetic (type 1 and 2) patients was investigated.
(3) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
(4) Cysteine preincubation decreased the amount of inhibition of CarAc by the metals.
(5) In addition, caracal (Felis caracal) from the park and its vicinity as well as from the Graaff-Reinet region of the Karoo were examined.
(6) Complete collections of ticks were made from 50 caracals (Felis caracal) in the Cradock, Graaff-Reinet and Southwell regions in the eastern Cape Province.
(7) The caracals from Southwell were infested with 11 tick species and the seasonal abundance of Ixodes pilosus on these animals was determined.
(8) However, 50% or more of helmeted guinea fowl and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; helmeted guinea fowl, scrub hares and eland (Taurotragus oryx) from the Mountain Zebra National Park; helmeted guinea fowl, kudu, domestic sheep, goats and cattle on the farm "Bucklands", and caracal (Felis caracal) from the Cradock and Southwell areas of the eastern Cape Province were infested with immature A. marmoreum.
(9) We found that all patients had cross-reacting IgE antibodies to seven of the Felidae tested; no IgE antibodies reactive with the caracal were found.
(10) Cat Haven has housed Bengal tigers, Siberian lynx, caracals, jaguars and leopards of various types as well as bobcats native to the area.
(11) Kinetic studies using Hanes plots revealed a mixed type of inhibition of CarAc by the metals.
(12) Caracal were moderately good hosts of these stages and, with mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula) and eland (Taurotragus oryx), are the preferred hosts of adult ticks.
(13) CarAc was inhibited by inorganic and organic mercury and cadmium.
(14) Caracal aurata is a medium-sized cat, about twice the size of a domestic cat, and strongly-built.
(15) Aeromonas hydrophila was isolated from the internal organs of a captive caracal lynx (Felis caracal) which died of acute septicemia.
(16) Species affected included a range of primates and birds, a rodent (Capybara) and a carnivore (Caracal Lynx).
(17) The morphological characters of the girdles and limb-bones of the Lynx (Felis lynx Linnaeus) and the Caracal (Felis caracal Schreber) have been studied.
(18) The effect of the heavy metal toxicants HgCl2, CH3HgCl, and CdCl2 on the acetylating activity of membranous carnitine acetyltransferase (CarAc) in membrane vesicles from the maternal surface of human placental syncytiotrophoblast has been investigated.
(19) and one caracal, Felis caracal) died suddenly in the University of Ibadan Zoological Garden without previous signs of illness.
(20) Eight of 10 patients with IgG4 antibodies directed to cat dander also had IgG4 antibodies directed to several Felidae species, including the caracal.
Cheetah
Definition:
(n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(2) An epizootic of feline infectious peritonitis in a captive cheetah population during 1982-1983 served to focus attention on the susceptibility of the cheetah (Acinoyx jubatus) to infectious disease.
(3) In the first year of study, 82 cheetahs were bled pre-vaccination.
(4) The data indicate that the comparatively poor reproductive performance of cheetahs maintained in zoological parks is not attributable to a captivity-induced response afflicting the male.
(5) However, a lower group response to FHV-1 in cheetahs suggests species differences occur.
(6) In 2009, researchers retracted a paper that claimed cheetahs originated in China, after the fossil they studied was found to be glued together from less interesting remains.
(7) Antibodies to FeLV were found in two cheetahs which later turned out to have been vaccinated with Leukocell, a FeLV vaccine.
(8) Lack of genetic variability and apparent susceptibility of cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) to coronavirus infection has lead to speculation that this species may have immune system deficits.
(9) The next generation of the Cheetah platform designed to operate untethered, the WildCat, recently entered initial testing.
(10) It started with a week's safari in the Masai Mara, where they saw zebras, wildebeest and a cheetah with her spiky-haired cub.
(11) Sperm-oocyte interaction in vitro was studied in the cheetah, a species known to produce poor quality ejaculates and to experience low rates of fertility.
(12) Disneynature's African Cats , for example, frames its cheetah protagonist as a struggling "single mother" coping with five cubs (despite the fact that female cheetahs are generally solitary) and is crammed with eulogies to maternal love and courage.
(13) If he died at 80, Cheetah's long lifespan would have made him one of the oldest chimpanzees in history.
(14) The cheetah coronavirus was compared with other members of the feline coronavirus group including the feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) 79-1683 and the feline infectious peritonitis viruses (FIPV), 79-1146, and UCD-1.
(15) Patient Zero, renamed Cheetah, lived with her until she died of old age – though the pillow was fleece.)
(16) Cheetahs topped the feline list, with 18 imports from the United Arab Emirates and South Africa between 2008 and 2013.
(17) Although responses varied between animals, certain individual cheetahs were consistent low responders.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The WildCat robot is the next evolution in the Cheetah platform capable of running untethered.
(19) Our studies suggest that these aspects of the cheetah's immune system are comparable with the domestic cat, and establish a basis for in vitro assays evaluating antigen-specific responses.
(20) Fortunately, the BBC did not include among its "Men of the Year" the chimpanzee Cheetah, who died last month aged 80 after having once co-starred with Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan films; for that would doubtless have also caused great offence among the nation's male population.