(1) Coelenterate and poriferan connective tissues were devoid of these acid polysaccharides.
(2) Many coelenterates can injure human skin by means of their nematocytes.
(3) The system of a related anthozoan coelenterate, the sea pansy Renilla reniformis, however, is oxygen dependent, requiring two organic components, luciferin and luciferase.
(4) A Ca2+-triggered luciferin-binding protein (BP-LH2) from the bioluminescent marine coelenterate, Renilla reniformis, has been purified by conventional methods.
(5) There are various types of photoproteins: the photoproteins of coelenterates, ctenophores and radiolarians require Ca2+ to trigger their luminescence; the photoproteins of the bivalve Pholas and of the scale worm appear to involve superoxide radicals and O2 in their light-emitting reactions; the photoprotein of euphausiid shrimps emits light only in the presence of a special fluorescent compound; the photoprotein of the millipede Luminodesmus, the only known example of terrestrial origin, requires ATP and Mg2+ to emit light.
(6) Glutamate dehydrogenases detected in tissue extracts of a broad sample of coelenterate species all require NADP(H) as a co-substrate, rather than being capable of using either NAD(H) or NADP(H).
(7) Mucus is an ubiquitous polymer hydrogel that functions as a protective coat on the surface of integument and mucosa of species ranging from simple animals (such as coelenterates) to mammals.
(8) In the hydrozoan coelenterate Obelia geniculata, epithelial cell action potentials trigger light emission from photocyte effector cells containing obelin, an endogenous calcium-activated photoprotein.
(9) We studied by immunohistochemistry three cases of delayed envenomation by coelenterates.
(10) These case histories demonstrate that multiple recurrent eruptions may follow solitary envenomations by different subphyla of coelenterates, that the initial eruption induced by the sting may be delayed by the administration of high doses of systemic corticosteroids, and that an immunologic reaction in both the B and T cell systems can follow jellyfish envenomation.
(11) The regeneration of coelenterate photoproteins in this manner probably takes place in vivo, utilizing stored coelenterazine.
(12) At least 100 of the approximately 9,000 species of coelenterates are dangerous to humans.
(13) Hydra viridis (= Chlorohydra viridissima) the freshwater coelenterate, is symbiotic.
(14) Some years ago our laboratory reported that the bioluminescence reaction in the ctenophores which had long eluded definition involved a calcium activated photoprotein similar in many respects to that found in other coelenterates, notably Aequorea.
(15) Skin tumor-promoting agents, including the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-type tumor promoters, such as diterpine phorbol esters, teleocidin and aplysiatoxin, and a non-TPA-type tumor promoter (the newly described palytoxin, present in the coelenterate of the genus Palythoa), stimulated arachidonic acid metabolism by rat liver cells in culture.
(16) Their distribution among lipids of a number of species of different classes of coelenterates from the northern and tropical seas, among neutral and polar lipids of these organisms was investigated.
(17) By using immunocytochemistry and radioimmunoassays, several substances resembling vertebrate or invertebrate neuropeptides have been found in the nervous systems of coelenterates.
(18) Sudden death following coelenterate envenomation is not uncommon in Australia where the Pacific box jellyfish is indigenous.
(19) The principal sources of these agents are bacteria, higher fungi, cnidarians (coelenterates) and the venoms of snakes, insects and other arthropods.
(20) The recurrent eruptions appeared several days after the primary exposure without contact with any offending coelenterate.
Medieval
Definition:
() Alt. of Medievalist
Example Sentences:
(1) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(2) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(3) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(4) "It is time for parliament to consider the increasingly urgent matter of the Prince of Wales's status and to modernise this medieval situation," Berkeley said.
(5) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(6) The medieval church spires of rural England are to bring superfast broadband to the remotest of dwellings, with the Church of England offering their use as communication towers.
(7) Album four, The Future Is Medieval , debuted on the band's website this summer.
(8) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(9) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(10) Though often described as "medieval", militant groups are actually extremely modern, with a worldview built from a mixture of very contemporary religious and secular sources.
(11) We need to be really, really clear that they are basing their whole world view on a kind of medieval, violent, revolting ideology that, by the way, is a total and utter aberration and distortion of what the vast, vast, vast majority of the millions of Muslims around the world believe in.
(12) Which isn’t, perhaps, so different to the role of priests and believers in medieval Britain.
(13) At this time the dramatist begins with the reception of the medieval mystery plays, Calderon and the greek-oriental myths.
(14) Wanting to improve the view from his house, and provide some extra work for local stonemasons, Allen commissioned this almost Disneyish idea of a medieval ruin.
(15) He relates details of the recent digital intrusion – purportedly sparked by his decision to relocate a 1947 memorial to Soviet war dead from a park in Tallinn, which angered some ethnic Russians living in Estonia's medieval walled capital – when I visit him at his family farm, near Abja Parish , some 40 miles inland from the Gulf of Riga.
(16) In it, Rostow tried to find a common pattern in the history of the economic growth of different societies, from the traditional society, such as medieval Europe or ancient China, where a high proportion of the population was engaged in agriculture and trade exchanges were largely local to an age of high mass consumption, in which society generates a sustainable surplus to improve living standards.
(17) Galavant, a medieval comedy musical filmed in Bristol, features appearances from Ricky Gervais and Vinnie Jones.
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(20) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).