(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.
Orange
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
(n.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.
(n.) The color of an orange; reddish yellow.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.
Example Sentences:
(1) DNA in situ is progressively denatured when the cells or nuclei are treated with increasing concentration of acridine orange (AO).
(2) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
(3) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
(4) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(5) As a result, O2, Orange and Vodafone are expected to offer both pre-pay and contract deals.
(6) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(7) A novel staining procedure for enumerating osteoclasts on neonatal mouse calvaria with the vital fluorescent dye acridine orange is described.
(8) A histidine-requiring derivative of strain AA0019 obtained after acridine orange treatment retained the cryptic plasmid DNA.
(9) Simultaneously with in vitro fertilization (IVF), the acridine orange (AO) test was performed on 51 patients according to the method of Tejada et al.
(10) Some of these transductants segregated certain F14 genes, indicating they were carried on self-replicating genetic elements, but others were not cured of F14 markers, even by acridine orange.
(11) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(12) Because previous work has shown that radioisotope release from parasites may be nonspecific, separate experiments were performed to determine the cytotoxicity of LAK cells against antibody-coated trophozoites by using ethidium bromide-acridine orange staining to assess effector cell damage.
(13) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(14) The uteri of ten patients who wore a copper-T for several months up to two years were examined immediately following hysterectomy by conventional microscopic techniques, fluorescent optical techniques after Acridin-Orange-Fluorochromization and by histo-chemical techniques for copper.
(15) No color was developed with ninhydrin, but the reduced form was orange-red.
(16) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
(17) In 12 patients (25-76 years-old) gastric emptying was quantified by scintigraphy after ingestion of 300 ml Tc-99m-labelled orange juice; simultaneously, the region of the gastric antrum was measured in 5-minute intervals in the aortic longitudinal section.
(18) X-replication was studied after BUDR incroporation and acridine orange staining.
(19) Detailed case histories are presented to show the course of parasitaemia in several orang-utans.
(20) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.