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Goldfish
Definition:
(n.) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.
(n.) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike results seen in the goldfish optic nerve, injury to the rat optic nerve induced no observable increase in laminin content or change in its distribution.
(2) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
(3) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
(4) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(5) Scanning electronmicroscopy examination showed that the morphology of NCH blastula cells, which were obtained from the combination of Tilapia nucleus and goldfish cytoplasm, manifested obviously abnormal features and the cells were arrested at different stages of cell disintegration.
(6) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
(7) Female goldfish exhibited a faster growth rate than male goldfish at certain times of the year, but sexual differences in growth rate were correlated with sexual differences in serum GH levels only in November when female goldfish had a higher serum GH level than male goldfish.
(8) Goldfish tested in a variety of control behavioral situations showed no detectable protein changes.
(9) Autoradiograms of paraffin sections taken from the goldfish optic tecta after the intraocular injection of 3H-uridine showed a distribution of grains in a linear pattern, suggesting a distribution over the incoming fibers during the reconnection stage of regeneration.
(10) An investigation of (2 nM) [3H]kainic acid binding sites in goldfish brain, using quantitative autoradiography, has revealed evidence for two types of kainic acid receptors which differ in sensitivity to glutamic acid.
(11) A gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) binding protein (GnRH-BP) from goldfish serum was isolated and characterized.
(12) We have begun to analyze neurotransmitter-activated conductances in retinal ganglion cells by measuring the response of single voltage-clamped adult goldfish ganglion cells to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
(13) Fast axonal transport of protein was examined in regenerating goldfish optic axons after a lesion of either the optic tract or optic nerve, which revealed changes in the original intact optic axon segments or in the newly regenerated axon segments, respectively.
(14) evoked by sound stimuli were recorded intracellularly from large afferent eight nerve fibres in the sacculus of the goldfish (S1 fibres).
(15) Rate sedimentation and isopycnic centrifugation were used to analyse the subcellular sites of enzymes in homogenates of goldfish intestinal mucosa.
(16) Since hatching was earlier in goldfish (E5) than in killifish (E7), neurochemical maturation was evident at 2-3 days before hatching in killifish but not until around hatching in goldfish.
(17) Preparations of enriched fractions of extracellular fluid (ECF) proteins from goldfish brain were found to contain protease(s) and esterase(s).
(18) Among their choicest memories from last year, they tell me, are watching shoals of goldfish swim down their street, and coming home to find Derrick's model boat collection bobbing on the deluge.
(19) Mammalian, chicken, and salmon gonadotropin releasing hormones (GnRHs), and anlogs of each peptide, were injected either alone or in combination with pimozide into goldfish, and the changes in serum gonadotropin (GtH) levels determined.
(20) Static incubation with tumor-promoting 4 beta-phorbol esters, activators of the Ca2(+)- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C enzyme (PKC), caused dose-dependent increases in gonadotropin (GTH) and growth hormone (GH) secretion in primary cultures of dispersed goldfish pituitary cells.
Goldie
Definition:
(n.) The European goldfinch.
(n.) The yellow-hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chile - Eggsy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldie Lookin’ Chain had a series of hits in 2004 and 2005, the biggest being Guns Don’t Kill People Rappers Do.
(2) As Acoss CEO Cassandra Goldie pointed out: Low- and modest-income households would clearly pay a higher proportion of their income, in comparison to higher income households through an increase in the GST, whether by increasing the rate or broadening the base by removing the exemptions.
(3) There’s a burgeoning wine industry with tasting rooms, several craft breweries and some great restaurants (try Goldy’s for breakfast).
(4) Among them, concepts of the alternating noncross resistance chemotherapy (Goldie-Coldman) and dose-intense chemotherapy were described in relation to application to the chemotherapy of gliomas.
(5) These overall findings are a wake-up call for us as a community and shine a spotlight on the current policy direction of federal government,” Goldie said.
(6) Salmond said he was sorry Goldie had resigned: "I hold Annabel in the very highest personal regard – she has a great sense of humour and a good outlook on political life.
(7) Resistant species were Cyathostomum coronatum, Cyathostomum catinatum, Cylicostephanus minutus, Cylicostephanus calicatus, Cylicostephanus longibursatus, Cylicostephanus goldi and Cylicocylus nassatus.
(8) Roy Goldie and colleagues describe the properties of this factor, and its potential clinical significance.
(9) Generally the composition of species was in agreement with other observations in western Europe, the most common species being: Cylicostephanus longibursatus, Cylicostephanus minutus, Cylicostephanus calicatus, Cylicostephanus goldi, Cylicostephanus poculatus, Cyathostomum labratum, Cyathostomum coronatum, Cyathostomum catinatum, Cylicocyclus leptostomus, Cylicocyclus nassatus, Cylicocyclus insigne, Strongylus edentatus and Strongylus vulgaris.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldie got married in Phuket and now lives there.
(11) The Conservative MP Chris White, who chaired the inquiry into the exports and is a member of the business committee, said: “ The government can no longer wait and see and must now take urgent action, halting the sale of arms to the Saudi-led coalition until we can be sure that there is no risk of violation.” In the Lords, however, the foreign office whip Annabel Goldie insisted Britain operated one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world.
(12) In return, Goldie was able to claim responsibility for ensuring shops and small businesses did not pay business rates, increasing frontline police numbers by 1,000 and reforming drugs rehabilitation policy in Scotland .
(13) The Goldie-Coldman model explaining the kinetics of tumor cell kill and drug resistance has a potential application in designing chemotherapy regimes.
(14) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(15) The Goldie-Coldman hypothesis, one such model, holds that resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs can be acquired in human tumors as a result of spontaneous mutation.
(16) To explore the clinical applicability of the Goldie and Coldman hypothesis, we treated 28 patients with metastatic breast cancer with alternating non-cross-resistant chemotherapy.
(17) That wasn’t something I thought about very much: her name was Goldie, so we’d give her blonde hair,” she said.
(18) In general, five species of small strongyles (Cyathostomum catinatum, Cyathostomum coronatum, Cylicocyclus nassatus, Cylicostephanus goldi, and Cylicostephanus longibursatus) exhibited varying degrees of resistance (% removal) to all of the drugs except oxibendazole.
(19) ‘It is literally impossible to please everybody’ Sterling admitted that GoldieBlox has faced criticism about diversity due to Goldie, its first character, being white and blonde.
(20) Small coated vesicules with dense content were followed-up from the Goldi's organs till their openings on the cellular surface.