(n.) Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Control iguanas fed a diet with adequate calcium (2.7%) and phosphours (1.1%) had well mineralized bones with wide cortices and thick metaphyseal trabeculae.
(2) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(3) This ultrastructural study was undertaken to investigate the morphological changes which occur in the fast twitch gastrocnemius muscle of the reptile Iguana iguana after nerve section.
(4) The capacity of skeletal muscle to synthesize glycogen from lactate was tested in the iliofibularis muscle of the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis.
(5) This result points towards a period of independent evolution of the reptile lines leading to the Common Iguana on one hand and to the Viper on the other.
(6) In response to systemic injections of hypertonic solutions of NaCl and sucrose, the iguana drank and retained enough water to dilute the injected load to isotonicity irrespective of whether water was offered immediately or after 3 hr, and irrespective of whether the solute was administered I.V.
(7) A unique type of hexagonal eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion was observed within syncytia of infected Terrapene cell cultures incubated at 36 C. In vivo studies revealed no evidence of pathogenicity of iguana virus for suckling mice, embryonated hen's eggs, or several species of reptiles and amphibians.
(8) Iguana virus is ether-sensitive and, as presumptively indicated by studies of inhibition by bromodeoxyuridine, possesses a deoxyribonucleic type of nucleic acid.
(9) Desert iguanas, Dipsosaurus dorsalis, displaying freerunning circadian locomotor rhythms in conditions of constant darkness and temperature received electrolytic lesions to the hypothalamus.
(10) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(11) An appendix presents a method for measuring the microscopic area of intestines with ridges rather than villi, applies this method to desert iguana intestine, and measures area amplification due to villi in wood rat intestine.
(12) The microsomal fraction of iguana liver catalyzed the transformation of 7alpha,12alpha-dihydroxycholest-4-en-3-one to 5alpha-cholestane-3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-triol in good yield.
(13) In a test of the first prediction, omnivorous desert iguanas eating alfalfa pellets (a high-carbohydrate diet) were compared with desert iguanas eating mealworms (a low-carbohydrate, higher-protein diet).
(14) The impact of temperature on the chemical control of respiration in the Mexican black iguana Ctenosaura pectinata was examined by measuring ventilatory responses to graded hypoxia with and without 2.9% inspired CO2 at 25, 30, and 35 degrees C. Black iguanas increased pulmonary ventilation in response to hypoxia by increasing both tidal volume and respiratory frequency.
(15) After water deprivation, the iguana promptly drank slightly more than enough water to restore the body fluids to isotonicity even under conditions of hypervolaemia.
(16) The goals of this study were: (1) to describe the total pattern of projections from the optic tectum of Iguana iguana and Pseudemys scripta; and (2) to describe the contributions of particular lamina of the Iguana's optic tectum to this total pattern.
(17) Contractile properties and innervation patterns were determined in identified single fibers from the iliofibularis muscle of the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis.
(18) The present experiments were designed to trace the central auditory pathways in an extant reptile, the New Worlkd lizard--Iguana iguana, utilizing anterograde axonal degeneration stained by the Fink-Heimer ('67) method and the retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase (LaVail and LaVail, '74).
(19) This study evaluated these three hypotheses by analyzing the activity of the hypaxial muscles of green iguanas (Iguana iguana).
(20) We conclude that, in response to substances which dehydrate cells, the iguana regulates its body osmolality precisely and efficiently provided it is able to do so by drinking.