(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.
Salmon
Definition:
(pl. ) of Salmon
(v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
(v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
(a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(3) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
(4) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(5) The salmon allele in G. m. morsitans is pleiotropic and profoundly affects many aspects of fly biology including longevity, reproductive capacity, vision, vectorial capacity and duration of flight, but not circadian rhythms.
(6) Addition of extracellular Ca2+ (5 mM CaCl2), a potent osteoclast inhibitor, increased [Ca2+]i in all osteoclasts, but 10(-6) M salmon calcitonin (sCT) did so only in a subpopulation of osteoclasts.
(7) Besides the volume, the acid concentration of gastric juice is reduced, which may explain the high efficacy of salmon calcitonin to prevent ulcer formation in this species.
(8) The presence and distribution of immunoreactive gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in brains of adult male and female Pachymedusa dacnicolor has been studied immunohistochemically using antisera against mammalian, chicken-II, and salmon GnRHs.
(9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(10) This study describes the effect of a natural diet, containing salmon as the source of n-3 fatty acids, on these parameters as compared to a diet very low in n-3 fatty acids.
(11) Salmon calcitonin inhibits the algodystrophic process and probably contributes to the activation of the skeletal restoration.
(12) Hypophysectomy of coho salmon (O. kisutch) reduced plasma immunoreactivity to nondetectable levels in seven of eight individuals.
(13) Immunoreactivity of antisera directed against human neuropeptide Y (NPY), anglerfish polypeptide YG (aPY), bovine pancreatic polypeptide (bPP), salmon pancreatic polypeptide (sPP), porcine peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY), and salmon glucagon-like peptide (GLP) was investigated in the endocrine pancreas and anterior intestine of adult lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, by immunohistochemical analysis.
(14) The minimum region in salmon calcitonin (sCT) which induces antigenicity and gastrointestinal disturbances has been identified by examining the cross-reactivity of several sCT fragments and CT analogs with antisera from sCT-treated patients, and by examining inhibition of gastrointestinal motility of these sCT fragments and CT analogs in conscious dogs.
(15) 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.
(16) Anti-salmon prolactin, but not anti-rat or -ovine prolactin, gave a specific staining of the acidophils of the rostral pars distalis (RPD), while anti-trout growth hormone (GH), but not anti-rat GH, stained similar but always separate cells in the proximal pars distalis (PPD).
(17) The side effects attributable to salmon calcitonin were transient nausea (in nine patients), transient flushing (in four), diarrhoea (in two), and rash (in one) though in only one patient did treatment have to be withdrawn prematurely because of these effects.
(18) Isometric contractions of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) gallbladder longitudinal muscle strips were recorded in response to porcine cholecystokinin (CCK), octapeptide of CCK (OP-CCK), desulfated octapeptide of CCK (ds-OP-CCK), porcine heptadecapeptide gastrins I and II, and pentagastrin.
(19) Competition for 125I-salmon calcitonin binding by a wide range of calcitonin analogs revealed a close correspondence between the reported biological potencies and activities in the current system.
(20) Chum salmon (oncorhynchus keta) stanniocalcin was purified, partially identified and tested for bioactivity in an assay on the intestinal calcium uptake in a marine teleost (Gadus morhua).