(1) The results suggest that the ACTH-containing part of the hypothalamus around the PVH is crucially involved in the organization of grooming behaviour.
(2) Thus, D1 receptor-mediated grooming and perioral movements seem to be exceptions to the otherwise general finding that co-stimulation of the two receptor subtypes needed for the expression of D1 or D2 agonist effects in normosensitive rats and mice.
(3) These videotaped responses were then scored for a variety of grooming and other behaviours.
(4) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(5) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
(6) Females significantly predominated in the second and the third week in ambulatory activity, in entering central fields and in the frequency of grooming periods and in the third and fourth week also in grooming duration.
(7) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(8) All three drugs reduced the amount of bombesin-induced grooming.
(9) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(10) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(11) This is training that predators rely upon,” she says in the book, “It is, perhaps, a form of gender-wide grooming.” For Caro, the opportunity of the book was to “place the blame where it lies,” she says, “squarely on the shoulders of those who use their power to exploit and damage others.” For all its bleakness, I drew comfort from the stories of the other contributors.
(12) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(13) This decline was attributed to increased grooming by cattle and was the only apparent mechanism by which resistance was expressed.
(14) Intracerebroventricular but not parenteral application of ACTH has been shown to elicit excessive grooming behavior in rats and mice.
(15) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
(16) After weaning, open field behavior was nearly normal, there was a mild decrease of rearing, grooming and ambulation and an initial preference for the periphery of the open field decreased.
(17) Since 1921 the average age at marriage has increased by 3.6 years for brides and 1.7 years for grooms.
(18) Exposure of adult male Sprague--Dawley rats to a non-traumatic noise-light stress procedure subsequently increased grooming behavior in a novel environment.
(19) Injection of the same dose of this antagonist analogue did not effect the increased grooming behavior after AVP injection.
(20) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
Preparation
Definition:
(n.) The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.
(n.) The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.
(n.) That which makes ready, prepares the way, or introduces; a preparatory act or measure.
(n.) That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination. Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something prepared for use in cookery.
(n.) An army or fleet.
(n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension.
(n.) Accomplishment; qualification.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(5) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(6) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(7) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(8) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(9) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(10) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.
(11) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(12) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(13) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(14) Immunoblotting with glycoprotein preparations from human eye muscle; 3.
(15) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(16) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(17) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(18) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(19) Statistically significant increases of triglycerides occurred under the combined preparations, of phospholipids under Ovosiston and Deposiston and of the beta-lipoproteins under Ovosiston and Gravistat.
(20) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.