(n.) A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).
(adv.) Again; afterwards; soon; quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
(2) Alternatively, they were provided with a small target, either stationary with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT).
(3) Among five efts of the smallest size (26.54 plus or minus 2.20 mm snout-to-vent length), and displaying bright orange dorsal skin coloration, all carpal rudiments were cartilaginous.
(4) Interpretations of race differences on these clusters and the EFT provide a new perspective on the meaning of Black-White personality differences.
(5) In the third line, alpha-EFT was 1,000 mol wt smaller than the normal counterpart, both as the precursor and as the mature form.
(6) This paper presents the value and effect of endoscopic fistulotomy (EFT) as an alternative treatment in those cases.
(7) The effects of purified prolactins isolated from frogs (fPRL; Rana catesbeiana) and newts (nPRL; Cynops pyrrhogaster) were compared with those of ovine prolactin (oPRL) and thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) in the eft (Notophthalmus viridescens) skin transepithelial potential (TEP) bioassay.
(8) Using different isotopic labeling procedures, both the in vivo and in vitro graft degradation patterns demonstrated that a second early eft degradation was correlated in vivo with endothelialization and collagenase secretion by invasive cells.
(9) Viruses were isolated from kidneys of normal and renal tumor-bearing Vermont Rana pipiens after subinoculation into red eft newts (Triturus viridescens).
(10) Variance attributable to gender among the spatial tasks ranged from 0.5% in the EFT to 12% in the MRT.
(11) Integrated systemic therapy (IST) and an emotionally focused approach (EFT) were both found to be superior to the control and to be equally effective in alleviating marital distress, facilitating conflict resolution and goal attainment, and reducing target complaints at termination.
(12) An interview was held with each participant after completion of the EFT.
(13) Beyond 200 ms, the VORG remained around 0.9 in DARK and increased slowly towards 1 or decreased towards zero in the EFT and CFT conditions, respectively.
(14) In cases of parapapillary choledochoduodenal fistula, EFT is a reliable method, especially in high-risk patients, and an alternative to surgical treatment.
(15) Under standard testing procedures, the (a) normal, (b) light-attenuated, and (c) simulated aged performance of 90 young women was compared to the performance of 30 elderly women, using two forms (colored or noncolored) of the Embedded Figures Test (EFT).
(16) Witkin's Embedded Figures Test (EFT) was used to measure the changes with age in field dependence and problem-solving ability Qualitative data concerning problem-solving strategies and quantitative data were collected.
(17) The transcription of the "leader" region (Bronson et al., 1973) of the trp operon in Escherichia coli was studied in normal mutants which delete most of the operator-distal region of the operon [a deletion strain (trp OAEG) retaining only about one third of the "leader" region and two deletion strains (trpOAE14 and trpOAE2) retaining the whole "leader" region and an initial portion of the trpE], as well as in a strain with an intact trp operon, but with a temperature-sensitive lesion in ribosomal protein factor EFTs (strain HAK88).
(18) A positive association between EFT level and severity of depression, and a negative one with alcohol use, were significant when other variables considered were controlled.
(19) EFT was administered to 12 females in each of the following decades: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60, 70s.
(20) Each of the viruses replicated to high titer in embryonated eggs incubated at 30 C. The viruses also grew in efts and adult newts, but not in bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) tadpoles or adult leopard frogs.
Newt
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Cells falling off from ectoderm were observed in normally developing gastrulae of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, in light microscopic examination.
(3) In newts collected in April, moreover, a PGF2 alpha-dependent 17 beta-estradiol synthesis could occur, since PGF2 alpha injection induced a significant 17 beta-estradiol plasma increase.
(4) A search for specific proteins involved in newt limb regeneration, using monoclonal antibodies against forelimb blastemas, led to the detection of an antigen in the regenerate epithelium.
(5) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(6) The process of lens regeneration in newts involves the dedifferentiation of pigmented iris epithelial cells and their subsequent conversion into lens fibers.
(7) Furthermore, carnosine is absent from the primary olfactory pathway in newts.
(8) A similar self-cleavage reaction has also been reported to occur in an RNA transcript containing a dimeric copy of a tandemly repeated, 330-base-pair sequence of the newt genome.
(9) Further experiments on this mixture with Italian Great Newts and on the carbon tetrafluoride mixtures CF4-Ar and CF4-SF6 with mice suggested that the anomalous potencies may arise from specific pulmonary effects associated with the breathing of SF6 accompanied by a high pressure of some other gas.
(10) This work, based on Golgi impregnations, transmission electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry, demonstrates that the intermediate filaments found in the radial gliocytes of the adult newt spinal cord are both vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) structures.
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(12) Light microscopical histochemistry and transmission electron microscopy have been used to identify large amounts of glycogen stored in the cytoplasm of specialized astroglial cells in the spinal cord of ribbed newts.
(13) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(14) The use of these two immunologic probes has provided supportive evidence on the heterogeneity of the lymphoid population of the newt, Triturus viridescens.
(15) The interaction of migrating newt epidermal cells with the extracellular matrix protein, fibronectin, was studied.
(16) When inseminated with sperm of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, mature Bufo oocytes exhibited polyspermy accompanied by a gradual hyperpolarization and a slowly developing positive plateau, without the fast spike that occurs in self-species fertilization.
(17) When viewed by light microscopy the mitotic spindle in newt pneumocytes assembles in an optically clear area of cytoplasm, virtually devoid of mitochondria and other organelles, which can be much larger than the forming spindle.
(18) The relation between p-aminohippurate uptake and the electrochemical potential gradient of Na+ (delta muNa+) across the peritubular membrane was examined in newt (Triturus pyrrhogaster) kidney.
(19) Not all cells of the adult newt blastema are randomly distributed and actively progressing through the cell cycle.
(20) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.