(n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxytocinergic innervation of the brain of the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) was studied by means of immunocytochemistry.
(2) During the hibernation period, the epiphyseal catecholamine charge is well detected in the garden dormouse; it appears more important in darkened animals at 22 degrees C and much less in animals under continuous lighting.
(3) A very dense innervation was also seen in the caudal regions of the garden dormouse brain; these regions are already known to have a relatively dense oxytocin fibre network in the rat.
(4) The hibernating garden dormouse is spontaneously hypophagic during the prehibernating period at which time we found a low peripheral sympathetic activity (S.A.).
(5) Obvious differences between experimental groups have not been observed, and the results presented here must be considered as general features of the garden dormouse posterior pituitary.
(6) After 6-h phase shifts, the 'asymmetry effect' was opposite in the two nocturnal rodents, the hamster and the dormouse.
(7) The quotation was taken from "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff.
(8) The relationships between food intake self-selection and liver substrates (glycogen, fat) or activities of pyruvate kinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, acetyl CoA carboxylase, glucose-6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase were determined during the spontaneous variations of body weight in the dormouse.
(9) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
(10) The distribution of vasopressin in the brain of the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) was examined by immunocytochemistry at different times of the year.
(11) The follicular epithelium of dormouse thyroid consists of two distinct cellular types, follicular and parafollicular cells.
(12) The ultrastructure of the chief neurosecretory nuclei, supraoptic, (SON), parventricular, (PVN) and infundibular (IN), of the dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) has been studied during active and hibernating states.
(13) These results indicate that: (a) the BAT exerts a pre-eminent role in the physiological response to cold of garden dormouse, (b) a certain non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) is present in the liver of such species.
(14) In the male edible dormouse, it has been proposed that the annual temperature cycle is the major external factor triggering annual biological rhythms in this hibernating species.
(15) In garden dormouse protein deficiency leads to reversible hypothermic torpor, comparable with that provoked by starvation or occuring naturally during hibernation, whether the diet consists wholly of apples or of synthetic protein-free food.
(16) Migratory birds including the whitethroat , reed warbler and song thrush are arriving earlier, three species of Japanese amphibians have been found to be breeding earlier, while the edible dormouse has been emerging earlier from hibernation by an average of eight days per decade.
(17) The effect of insulin on U-14C-glucose oxidation by adipose tissue isolated from hibernating or arousing edible dormouse has been studied.
(18) The kidney lymphatic system of bat, dormouse and marmot consists of intraparenchymal (interlobar, arcuate, interlobular) and extraparenchymal (capsular) vessels sharing common ultrastructural aspects.
(19) Glucagon secretion was regulated by glucose (inhibitory effect) and by arginine (stimulating effect) up to 25 degrees C. The effect of temperature and glucagon on oxygen uptake of hibernating edible dormouse brown fat was studied using an in vitro technique.
(20) We studied 20 garden dormouses (Eliomys quercinus), 10 of which had hibernated.
Loir
Definition:
(n.) A large European dormouse (Myoxus glis).
Example Sentences:
(1) At its height, flows on the Loire, France’s longest river and home to many nuclear power plants, were reduced to a trickle.
(2) The stuff that sells at auction and that has collectors salivating into their silver spittoons invariably comes from Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône Valley or, at a pinch, the Loire or Champagne.
(3) Sadly, bureaucratic and political obstacles prevailed, and Loir was never granted permission to release his biological control agent.
(4) Somatic cells (interstitial cells and Sertoli cells) were prepared either as single cells or in clusters, from spermatogenic and mature trout testes, according to Loir (1988), and cultured for 10-14 days.
(5) The presence of various enteropathogens was examined in the feces of homebred dairy calves reared in a restricted geographical area of France (North West of County of Indre-et-Loire) during winter 1983-1984.
(6) the total number of renal tumours diagnosed in the Indre-et-Loire region between 1980 and 1987 inclusive.
(7) The immunity response to neuraminidase appears after the natural disease; this response is studied in two foci, one due to a virus belonging to the A equi I subtype (Loire 73 strain), the other to a virus of the A equi 2 subtype (SHN 73 strain).
(8) The fifth of six children, she grew up in Angers in the Loire valley.
(9) Liveried waiters served roast quail on Limoges china and poured Loire Valley wines, properly chilled against the equatorial heat.
(10) The functional properties of Hb Loire may be explained by a slight displacement of some key residues of the C-terminal region of the alpha chain destabilizing the T structure.
(11) • From £209 a night (minimum three-night stay) La Grande Maison, Loire Valley There is not much that the owners of this guesthouse don't know about wine.
(12) A survey was undertaken in 3 French departments of the Pays de Loire from January 1, 1986 to December 31, 1986.
(13) Using a research network of general practitioners (Resomed 44) representing the 20th of all GP's in the Loire Atlantique region and distributed at random according to district, age and sex made it possible to evaluate the respective prevalences of temporal arteritis (TA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in all the systemic immune diseases listed.
(14) A study was undertaken to evaluate the use of self-administered medication in 895 patients with rheumatologic disorders by all of the 18 rheumatologists practicing in one region (the southern portion of the Loire Department and all of the Haute-Loire Department) over a six-day period.
(15) In October 1975, a specific immunization by means of a formalin inactivated hepatitis B vaccine has been introduced to protect patients and staff members of three haemodialysis units of the Loire Valley (Tours, Blois, Orléans).
(16) Now specialist providers such as La Grande Maison – a boutique hotel for lesbian (and all) wine lovers in France's Loire Valley – and The Out NYC – a hotel for gay people in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen – have been joined by a multitude of websites offering the sort of choices all holidaymakers desire.
(17) All these milks were invariably very polluted throughout the year, but there were however noted some qualitative differences according to the geographic position of the milk banks: South of the Loire river, the main polluting factor was hexachlorocyclohexane, whilst North of the Seine, fairly high values were found for heptachlor epoxide and dieldrin.
(18) The first recorded experience Australia had of the genus Yersinia was the arrival in 1889 of a French expedition led by Pasteur's nephew, Dr. Adrien Loir.
(19) The highest incidence rate of all the French departments, the drop in the rate of this growth curve in 1983 and the over representation of the employee category appear to be the most specific notions in the Indre-et-Loire department.
(20) The distribution of patients in terms of sex and ten year age groups is analysed, together with the various incidence rates for a year in Burgundy and in its four administrative units (Cote-d'Or, Nievre, Saone-et-Loire and Yonne).