(n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mean viremia titers and durations did not differ significantly among chipmunk age-classes.
(2) To clarify the cause of uncoupling of Ca influx through Ca channels and the contractility of the myocardium in hibernating chipmunks, the electromechanical effects of two different internal Ca store inhibitors, caffeine and ryanodine, and a cardiotonic agent, isoprenaline, were investigated in papillary muscles of hibernating animals.
(3) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(4) The chipmunks were trapped and periodically recaptured in two study areas where 59 chipmunks became infected and developed neutralizing antibody during the summer cycle of virus transmission.
(5) triseriatus feeding on chipmunk blood containing LAC virus neutralizing (N) antibodies and for Ae.
(6) Movement, home range and density of chipmunk populations were determined by trap mark and recapture techniques on grid study areas.
(7) Seven-day cycles in spontaneous activity were found in wild animals (recently trapped Norway rats, chipmunks, ground squirrels, and squirrel monkeys), but not in tame domesticated animals (laboratory Norway rats and hamsters).
(8) On the other hand, the stratum griseum intermedium of the chipmunk SC received the greatest innervation of serotonergic varicose fibers.
(9) He flew at weekends, in gliders and tandem-seat Chipmunks, with instructors who would occasionally let their students take control to try their hands at take-offs and landings.
(10) Diurnal fluctuations in serum Ca, inorganic phosphorus, Mg, and alkaline phosphatase activity and their relations to lighting and feeding schedules were investigated in nocturnal rats and diurnal asiatic chipmunks.
(11) To explore the degree of serotonergic innervation in each layer, a semi-quantitative assay of serotonin immunoreactive varicosities was conducted in the rat, chipmunk, cat, and monkey.
(12) Active antibodies neutralizing LAC virus were first detected in susceptible chipmunks in mid-July and 68 free-living and 4 sentinel animals developed antibodies during the study.
(13) The electromechanical responses to isoprenaline and a high calcium medium on cardiac muscles from nonhibernating and hibernating chipmunks were studied in the presence and the absence of ryanodine.
(14) The chipmunks developed viremias of 1-4 days duration and antibody titers were similar in intensity and duration to those reported in chipmunks infected by Ae.
(15) There were no differences in virulence and antigenic characteristics of LAC strains isolated from chipmunks compared to those from squirrels.
(16) Single unit recordings were made from the relay cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus in the eastern chipmunk.
(17) The mean plaque size of viruses isolated from squirrels was slightly larger than the mean plaque size of viruses isolated from chipmunks.
(18) You're also in Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel .
(19) ), now it seems more like that special time of year when grown women are encouraged to dress as anything they want, as long as it has the prefix of “sexy” or, yes, “slutty.” On one recent Halloween in New York, I spotted a sexy pumpkin, a sexy witch, a sexy chipmunk and a sexy hamburger.
(20) Chipmunk habitat was ranked for quality and populations of chipmunks.
Rodent
Definition:
(v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
(v. t.) Gnawing.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
(n.) One of the Rodentia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(2) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
(3) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
(4) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(5) This model of protective immunity in a Brugia-susceptible small rodent may provide a useful system for identification of molecularly defined filarial-protective immunogens.
(6) The receptor pattern observed in tumors does not support the hypothesis previously raised in the case of chemically induced colonic tumors in rodents.
(7) It is concluded that these rodent studies do not implicate any specific inhalational anesthetic agent in fetal toxicity, and that the effects of additional factors, such as stress, must be considered.
(8) In the course of routinely performed subchronic toxicity studies with laboratory rodents, functional neurotoxicity, i.e.
(9) Particularly striking is the distribution of CpG dinucleotides within human and rodent APRT genes.
(10) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
(11) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
(12) The differences in immunoreactivity between rodent and human amyloid plaques are consistent with other findings showing that cellular genes, not infectious purified prions, encode PrP.
(13) These products, as well as several synthetic intermediates, were evaluated for antifilarial activity against Molinema dessetae either in vivo in its natural host, the rodent Proechimys oris, or in vitro by a new test using cultures of the infective larvae.
(14) An increased neuronal activity was obtained by exercising the rats in a commercial rodent treadmill a couple of hours per day for 14 days.
(15) In a series of experiments we found that 1) growth rates of hamsters offered the Lyric diet alone or in conjunction with the standard rodent diet exceeded those of hamsters offered only the standard rodent diet.
(16) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(17) With repeated administrations, rodents become increasingly sensitive to the stimulant properties of amphetamine, a phenomenon termed sensitization.
(18) Although the overall rate of thymidine incorporation was lower than that for rodent cells, human hepatocytes were sensitive to lower concentrations of these growth factors, and the degree of stimulation was similar.
(19) Daily cocaine injection into rodents produces a progressive increase in the motor stimulant effect of acute cocaine administration.
(20) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.