(n.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.
Example Sentences:
(1) When incubated in FW, water entry was greater in SW-adapted eels than in FW-adapted eels.
(2) Interpretation of the results shows that the ovary of the European eel contains the following enzymes: a 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 5----4-ene-isomerase complex, a 17 alpha-hydroxylase, a C21-C19 desmolase, a 17 beta-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase, a 5 alpha-reductase, a 3 beta-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase and an aromatase complex.
(3) Digests of neuropeptides using purified eel AChE or bovine pancreatic trypsin gave identical peptide maps.
(4) As a first step in studying the molecular mechanisms involved in this stimulation, we cloned and characterized the cDNA encoding the beta subunit of eel GTH-II.
(5) This includes the analysis of the transfer characteristics of the image detection system, the use of laser-induced fiducials for deformation correction and alignment, the control of section thickness by EELS and the use of ESI to image thick sections.
(6) Cutaneous oxygen consumption and oxygen uptake from the external medium were investigated in three species of freshwater teleosts:eel(Anguilla anguilla L.)(silvered stage), trout (Salmo gairdnerii R.) and tench (Tinca tinca L.).
(7) "Our study shows the potential benefit of putting prostate cancer on a par with cancers such as breast cancer when it comes to genetic testing," said study co-leader Ros Eeles, professor of oncogenics at the Institute of Cancer Research and honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
(8) Ester hydrolysis by acetylcholinesterase (from electric eel, Electrophorus electricus) increased in the presence of low concentrations (ca 10(-7) M) of edrophonium, propidium, d-tubocurarine, gallamine, decamethonium or bis-N-methylacridinium, and decreased at higher concentrations.
(9) Kallidin but not BK and des-Arg9-BK contracted eel intestine.
(10) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(11) Gonadotrophs (GTH cells), small and scarcely visible in the pituitary of control eels, are hypertrophied and contain numerous glycoprotein granules after E2-administration.
(12) This peptide, termed eel atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), has sequence homology of 59% to mammalian (human or rat) ANP, 52% to fowl ANP, and 46% to frog ANP.
(13) Six N-alkyl and N-aryl 5-(1,3,3-trimethylindolinyl) carbamates were synthesized and studied for their structure-activity relationships in inhibiting eel acetylcholinesterase (AChE).
(14) In order to verify this hypothesis, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) has been used to compare the P content in control and ADR-treated erythrocyte ghosts.
(15) A radioimmunoassay for chicken calcitonin in chicken ultimobranchial glands was established utilizing a rabbit antiserum against eel calcitonin.
(16) Viscera (48.3 kg) from moray eels (Lycodontis javanicus) collected in a ciguatera endemic area were extracted and the ciguatoxins characterized.
(17) Nine selected EELs were classified in three clusters of increasing degrees of seriousness of health effects.
(18) Examples include monitorings of the rate of hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine iodide by eel acetylcholinesterase and the rate of hydrolysis of malathion and nonconventional esters such as O-methyl, O-ethyl, and O-isobutyl carbonates of p-nitrophenol by commercial porcine liver carboxylesterase.
(19) The geographic distribution pattern points to the existence of areas around the globe in which flatfish or eels are able to develop skin papillomas.
(20) Incidence of lethal bends and intravascular bubbles has been studied in the eel (Anguilla anguila L.) submitted to hyperbaric air decompressions at temperatures of 17 and 27 degrees C. The fish was an accurate model to seek the nature of the inert gas transport limiting process (diffusion or perfusion) because an increase in temperature considerably influences the rate of perfusion whereas the properties of gases vary in relatively lower proportions.
Een
Definition:
(n.) The old plural of Eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) 32% of the 400 women undergoing such operations in the clinic bet een 1973 and 1979 had sociomedical indications for sterilization, i.e.
(2) Some readers have been appalled at the lack of abortion counseling t een-age patients receive while others are appalled that anything at all on abortion is published.
(3) One self-contained hand orthosis powered with the Een-Holmgren Actuating Unit has been tested and recommended.
(4) Liby was captured outside his family home at 6.15am in Noufle'een, a quiet suburb in eastern Tripoli, according to witnesses, but there were conflicting reports over who took him.
(5) Taking users of non-hormonal methods as control, triglyceride levels were higher, and total and free testosterone levels were lower in women using DHPA 150 mg + EEn 10 mg and in those taking contraceptive pills (p less than 0.05 - 0.01).
(6) He was very insistent I do it – thankfully, it turns out.” At McQu een’s studio in London’s Clerkenwell, Waplington tried to disappear into the background – staff were instructed not to speak to him, even to offer him a cup of tea.
(7) Whereas the street portion of this study approximated normal driving conditions, it should be emphasized that the context of the driving experience een on city streets was experimental.
(8) Thus, the extraembryonic ectoderm (EEC), the extraembryonic endoderm (EEN), and the ectoplacental cone (EPC) corresponded to separate communication compartments, with the EPC being further subdivided into three compartments.
(9) The combined intragastric injection of 3% acetic acid (0.5 ml thrice a week) for 8 months and EENS for 6 months boosted the total frequency of neoplasms to 100% and resulted in increased multiplicity of tumor--from 9.8--10.7 for EENS alone to 14.5 for EENS + acetic acid.
(10) Abdullah al-Ruqai, 21, said three masked men brandishing handguns leapt from a white Mercedes van as his father, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, returned in his car from morning prayers at 6.30am on Saturday in the leafy suburb of Noufle'een.
(11) The results suggest that the metabolic effect of DHPA 150 mg + EEn 10 mg is not higher than that of the commonly used oral contraceptives.
(12) Interestingly, the EEN was observed to exhibit a very low level of dye coupling with the adjacent visceral embryonic endoderm (EN), and consistent with the latter dye coupling results was the finding that the EEN was ionically coupled to the EN, but not with any other extraembryonic tissues.
(13) Female rats were mated betw een 1700 and 1730 or between 1800 and 1830 hours.
(14) Serum prolactin may have b een elevated due to anesthesia and exsanguination and showed a rapid increase which occurred simultaneously with elevated LH and FSH on the afternoon of proestrus.
(15) As the value of observed rate constant between DAO and the product was constant at high product concentrations, the binding mechanism can be explained as follows; E + Im in equilibrium with EIm in equilibrium with EEN: rapid bimolecular and slow unimolecular processes.
(16) The dose-dependent changes of EEN, TPA, TOA are shown in experiments on the animals under hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) pressure (0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 MPa from 30 min.
(17) In 48 in whom tubal patency had b een considered abnormal, 90% were found to be so at laparotomy.
(18) The satellite images show that the Masha al-Arb’een area has been wiped out.