(n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Example Sentences:
(1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(4) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(5) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(6) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(7) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(8) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(9) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(10) The occurrence of fungi in tissue specimens from 72 cattle was examined by culture, histopathology and indirect immunofluorescence staining (IIF).
(11) Thirty-two homologous genes now have been mapped in humans, mice, and cattle.
(12) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(13) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(14) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(15) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
(16) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(17) Also, 17 cattle similarly were given a placebo injection and served as control animals.
(18) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(19) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(20) In neutrophilous peripheral blood leucocytes of healthy and leucotic cattle the PAS reaction attained the values of ++ to +++.
Sorghum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian).
(n.) A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(2) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(3) Studies were conducted to compare the effects of feeding high-tannin sorghum (HTS)- and low-tannin sorghum (LTS)-based diets suboptimal in protein to ducks, chicks, and rats.
(4) The purpose of this study was to attempt to establish a possible relationship between the physical characteristics of grain sorghum and its capacity to expand.
(5) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(6) There are numerous sustainable options, including packing materials made from corn starch or sorghum , which can be composted .
(7) Regulation of the in vitro phosphorylation process of the photosynthetic form (G form) of Sorghum leaf Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC: EC 4.1.1.31) was studied.
(8) Sorghum mitochondrial atp6 occurs as one copy in the line Tx398 and as two copies in IS1112C.
(9) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(10) Experiments 1 and 2 were 35-d growth trials in which barley was substituted for gain sorghum at levels of 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40% of the diet.
(11) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(12) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(13) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(14) We studied the heritability of fumonisin production in mating population A by crossing fumonisin-producing strains collected from maize and sorghum in the United States with fumonisin-nonproducing strains collected from maize in Nepal.
(15) These supplements consisted of 60% wheat middlings and various ratios of soybean meal and grain sorghum to achieve the desired CP concentration.
(16) To further substantiate the regulatory role of this disulfide, site-directed mutagenesis has been used to replace each or both of the amino-terminal cysteines of the sorghum leaf NADP-malate dehydrogenase, expressed in Escherichia coli, by serines.
(17) It produced the same effect on phosphorus balance only in sorghum groups.
(18) The exon of sorghum tRNAleu gene has an identical nt sequence to its counterpart in maize.
(19) Cows were assigned randomly to receive a control [C; containing grain sorghum (GS) and soybean meal (SBM)] or CSFA-based (containing Megalac [a source of CSFA], GS, and SBM) supplement.
(20) Since activation of the alveolar macrophage to release chemotactic activity represents an additional indirect mechanism of neutrophil recruitment, an extract from grain sorghum dust was evaluated for its ability to stimulate guinea pig and human alveolar macrophages to release neutrophil chemotactic activity.