(n.) The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(2) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(3) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
(4) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(5) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(6) Studies have been made on the activity of glycosidases from eye tissues of developing chick embryos and adult hens.
(7) The results suggest that a cytoplasmic progesterone receptor is present in the pituitary and hypothalamic tissue, as well as in the oviduct magnum, of the hen.
(8) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(9) Mortality was less in the N-XL as compared to DB, but NB hens showed 11.7% more mortality than dwarfs.
(10) Raw Target RSM was force fed to 12 hens which were killed after varying time intervals (15 min., 30 min., 60 min.)
(11) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(12) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
(13) The TOCP-treated hens developed clinical signs of neuropathy.
(14) Posterior pituitary extract (0.01-0.5 equivalent) from hens in each of the various stages of the reproductive cycle induced a concentration dependent PRL release.
(15) Is he not going to talk to them for four or eight years?” Henning said.
(16) Data were obtained on hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass, egg specific gravity, Haugh units, feed consumption, and feed efficiency.
(17) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(18) Though Henning lived in Eccles, Salford, he had many friends in Bolton.
(19) The present study determined the amount and types of glycosaminoglycans and collagen concentrations in follicles of the domestic hen.
(20) Brown layer hens (BC and HC strains) and white layer hens (WL strain) orally infected with the H-162 strain of the egg-drop syndrome 1976 virus developed few clinical signs except for abnormal egg production.
Hex
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibroblasts from two such TSD patients had Hex A activity comprising 16% of total Hex when measured by thermal fractionation and quantitation with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-N-acetylglucosamine (4MUG).
(2) We have shown previously that a mutant sequence (hex-3), which differs from hex-1 by three base pairs, can no longer bind these two factors significantly.
(3) About 200 urine samples, from the various categories listed above, were analyzed for Hex A with both the heat denaturation and pH inactivation methods and the results compared with serum and leukocyte levels from many of the same individuals.
(4) Hexosaminidase in extracts from normal kidney and renal carcinoma tissue could be separated into two major forms [hexosaminidase A (Hex A) and hexosaminidase B (Hex B)] by Cellogel electrophoresis or by diethylaminoethyl cellulose column chromatography.
(5) This finding also suggests that the Hex, Mut, and PMS systems evolved from a common ancestor and that functionally similar mismatch repair systems could be widespread among procaryotic as well as eucaryotic organisms.
(6) The greatest amount of hex S activity was found in fibroblast, but it was also observed in lesser amounts in liver, kidney, intestine and placenta.
(7) At low pH, two of the latter mabs reacted only with Hex B, and it was, therefore, possible to develop enzyme immunoassays for the specific determination of Hex A and Hex B.
(8) The competitive ganglionic nicotinic blocking agent, HEX, on the other hand, inhibited both the increased locomotion produced by CRF in the home cage and also the decreased locomotion induced by CRF in the modified open field.
(9) Hex 70-Inv and Hex 532-Inv, like endogenous lysosomal enzymes, were subject to developmentally induced secretion.
(10) A hexose (Hex)2-3 branch is attached to the heptose linked directly to KDO and a GalNAc-Hex3, GlcNAc, and PEA are separately attached to the second heptose.
(11) The commonly used screening test for detection of Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) carriers is the serum Hex heat inactivation method (HIM), which is based on the assumption that Hex A is the only thermolabile component of Hex; However, in the presence of thermolabile Hex B, HIM could lead to false-negative results.
(12) HEX(C) is shown to differ from HEX(A) and HEX(B) in substrate specificity, molecular size and affinity for Concanavalin-A.
(13) The activities of beta-hexosaminidase (HEX), a lysosomal glycosidase, were studied in serum (sHEX) and urine (uHEX) among men with various drinking habits.
(14) The Hex treated dogs and cats exhibited a fall of MAP and CBF with enhancement of CVR.
(15) The electrophoretic pattern of human fibroblast extracts displays three bands (cathode to anode) of hexosaminidase: Hex B, Hex A, Hex C in normal strains, only one B band in Tay-Sachs strains, and only one C band in Sandhoff strains.
(16) Though monkey tissues also cross-reacted with human seminal plasma Hex-antisera, mouse, rat, and goat testis and epididymis extracts failed to show any cross-reaction.
(17) Hex S, the major residual beta hexosaminidase activity present in tissues, fluids, and cultured skin fibroblasts of patients with type 0 GM2 gangliosidosis, was isolated and characterized biochemically and immunologically.
(18) The persistence of a second major hexosaminidase isozyme, HEX B, does not protect against the lethal accumulation of GM2 ganglioside in the central nervous system.
(19) The results suggest that, in the patient's fibroblasts, a defect in beta-chain synthesis or processing precludes the self-association of beta-chains to form Hex B, but does not prevent the association of alpha- and beta-chains to form Hex A.
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