(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.
Snake
Definition:
(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
(v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
(10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
(12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
(13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
(14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
(15) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
(19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
(20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.