(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.
Moray
Definition:
(n.) A muraena.
Example Sentences:
(1) Viscera (48.3 kg) from moray eels (Lycodontis javanicus) collected in a ciguatera endemic area were extracted and the ciguatoxins characterized.
(2) More are dotted about the isle and were used by the Romans in the past to breed moray eels.
(3) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(4) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
(5) The other is closely similar to (or identical with) ciguatoxin from the moray eel Gymnothorax javanicus.
(6) moray eel burger – crispy, umami and rich, it’s the bacon of the sea.
(7) Ciguatoxin, the agent responsible for ciguatera, a disease produced in humans from ingestion of certain fishes, has been isolated from specimens of the moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus.
(8) The Earl of Moray is thought to get about £2m a year in rent from a 49-turbine windfarm on his Doune estate in Perthshire, while the Duke of Roxburghe stands to make more than £1.5m a year from his 48-turbine Fallago Rig development in Lammermuir Hills.
(9) 1.7m, and the 664MW Beatrice windfarm in the Outer Moray Firth in Scotland.
(10) It was just: get out and make a difference.” Moray: 'We are fed up with the SNP.
(11) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(12) Central Edinburgh will be awash with the blue and white St Andrew's cross, the dramatic yellow and red of the erect lion rampant and Yes Scotland placards from the Highlands, urban Glasgow and the prosperous farmlands of Moray and Aberdeenshire.
(13) Ciguatoxin, as characterized from moray eels, was not detected in any of the strains examined.
(14) While many parts of Scotland voted heavily in favour of the EU, Moray came within 122 votes of backing leave at the referendum.
(15) She wanted to be a journalist, and, after leaving school, worked for the now-defunct magazine, Scotland, but soon discovered a passion for social work, and decided to study for a degree on the subject at Moray House School of Education, now part of Edinburgh University.
(16) We conclude that moray eel bites can be managed successfully with aggressive, local wound care and antibiotic coverage that targets Vibrio and Pseudomonas species.
(17) A Tesco spokesman, Michael Kissman, admitted: "Having asked for confirmation from our lawyers, the covenants affecting the titles in Trowbridge [Wiltshire], Leytonstone [east London] and Elgin [Moray] have been released as per our instructions.
(18) I know it’s going to be hard and will take a long time to get established in the EU again, but I totally believe that eventually an independent Scotland will thrive.” Lazenby is equally adamant that immigration was not an issue for voters in Moray.
(19) They include the Queen, the Duke of Westminster, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Richard Sutton, the Earl of Moray, Baron Phillimore and family, and the Earl of Plymouth.
(20) A spokesman for the rail company said: “For safety reasons it will be necessary for Network Rail to inspect rail lines across the network for damage this morning before allowing passengers to travel on routes.” Meanwhile, Aberdeen police said a number of trees were down on Aberdeenshire and Moray roads.