(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.
Weel
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Well.
(n.) A whirlpool.
() Alt. of Weely
Example Sentences:
(1) In human fetal lung, there was an increase in specific activity of methionine adenosyltransferase with increasing gestational age (r = 0.87; P less than 0.01) up to 25 weels of gestation, after which time no fetal specimens were obtained.
(2) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
(3) Determination of hydroxyproline concentration showed that significant differences in the content of the collagen tissue in relation to control animals of the same age occurred only in Goldblatt rats 24 weels after operation.
(4) A prototype rate pressure product module has been constructed for use with Simonsen and Weel Series 8000 monitors.
(5) The human weel protein, a homologue of the yeast weel protein, was expressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity.
(6) These results confirmed earlier reports by Yonge (1924) and van Weel (1955) on the decapods, Nephrops norvegicus and Atya spinides, respectively.
(7) Two or three days after plating, the cells were attached to the surface of tissue culture weel, and began dividing.
(8) The growth-stimulating effect depended on the animal species and strain and on the carcinogen, as weel as on the route of administration.
(9) Measurements with Criticare CSI 501 (Simonsen & Weel), Criticare CSI 502 (Simonsen & Weel), Nellcor N 100 (Dräeger), Satlite (Datex) and Novametrix 500 (Vickers) were compared with arterial blood gas analyses with Radiometer ABL 3 (Radiometer, Copenhagen).
(10) These are the Cardiac Recorders CR26, the Hewlett-Packard HP43120A, the Physico-Control Lifepak 8, the PPG Hellige SCP 852 and the Simonsen & Weel Defi 2.
(11) Intra-atrial, atrio-ventricular and intraventricular conduction disorders, as weel as primary ventricular repolarization changes, were also observed.
(12) These signals may be monitored through the weel pathway leading to tyrosyl phosphorylation of p34cdc2.
(13) In cells in which the weel+ gene is overexpressed fivefold and that have an average length at mitosis of 28 microns, the rate of nuclear separation was only slightly reduced but, as spindles in these cells measure 20-22 microns, the duration of anaphase B was extended by approximately 40%.
(14) The history and function of Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) Maximum Allowable Concentrations (MACs), Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) and Workplace Environment Exposure Limits (WEELs) also were reviewed.
(15) The authors analyse the importance in recognizing the minimal signals and symptoms, as weel as the clinical patterns of the manifested disease; Some considerations are draw about the values of the early diagnostic before the high incidence of mortality and the gravity of sequaele that occur besides the high doses and long term antimicrobial therapy.
(16) A cdc2-3w weel-50 double mutant of fission yeast displays a temperature-sensitive lethal phenotype that is associated with gross abnormalities of chromosome segregation and has been termed mitotic catastrophe.
(17) The pattern of p34 phosphorylation is unaltered at the nonpermissive temperature in strains carrying temperature sensitive alleles of weel-50 and ran1-114 or in a strain overproducing the ran1+ gene product.
(18) Furthermore, serine and tyrosine residues of the yeast weel protein are reportedly autophosphorylated in vitro, however the tyrosine residue of the human weel protein was autophosphorylated whereas the serine and threonine residues were not.
(19) They had weel pronounced sinuosity and clearly protruding valves.
(20) In 11 patients the GGTP activity as weel as that of the other enzymes was normal despite heavy chronic herioin abuse.