(n.) One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.
(n.) One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.
(n.) A glutton; a gormandizer.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that in spite of cerebellar degeneration and ataxia, lurcher mutants are not impaired in all tests measuring motor function.
(2) Immunocytochemical analysis of aggregation chimeras made using either of the mutants, Lurcher or Purkinje cell degeneration, previously showed that only Bergmann glia close to surviving Purkinje cells expressed an apparently normal level of the enzyme, glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) (Fisher and Mullen, 1988).
(3) Lurcher Purkinje cells, in contrast, receive scattered contacts by GAD-IR puncta and possess a "cap" of such elements surrounding the primary dendrite and apical soma.
(4) Lurcher mice show 100% degeneration of Purkinje cells, starting during the second postnatal week, while staggerer mice show reduced numbers of Purkinje cells in a distinctive mediolateral distribution from the time of birth, with the remainder grossly stunted.
(5) We conclude that the Lurcher cerebellum is particularly sensitive to thyroid hormone, and that it responds to low levels of hyperthyroidism in a distinct way.
(6) It was found that, in comparison to littermate controls, the lurcher mutants alternated less often in a discrete two-trial procedure of spontaneous alternation and did not habituate to maze stimuli in a T-maze.
(7) The response of IP neurones in normal and Lurcher mice appear to be similar to those observed in the normal and experimentally cerebellar decorticate cat, respectively.
(8) These afferents maintain dense perisomatic nests around Purkinje cells, even in P13-15 lurchers.
(9) In the present study, we examined the IL-6 mRNA expression by stimulated peripheral macrophages of two cerebellar mutant mice, the staggerer and the lurcher mutants.
(10) It is concluded that the mossy fibre input to the cerebellum is intact in the Lurcher mutant mouse.
(11) In contrast, the lurcher cerebellum exhibited enzyme activity in both molecular and granular layers.
(12) This study examines the question of whether intrinsically defective mutant Lurcher Purkinje cells, which degenerate during postnatal weeks two to five, followed by later loss of granule cells are competent to respond to neonatal hyperthyroidism, which is known to cause premature differentiation of Purkinje cells and an acceleration of the peak of proliferation in granule cells in normal rodent cerebellum.
(13) Although they are normal in number, previous work from our laboratories has shown that when the genetically wild-type Purkinje cells are present in the mosaic environment of the lurcher chimeric mouse they develop a very unusual morphology.
(14) The response characteristics of interpositus neurones (IP) to sciatic nerve stimulation were studied in normal and Lurcher mutant mice under pentobarbitone anaesthesia.
(15) This proved incorrect and, indeed, the Purkinje cells in the lurcher chimeras show changes of a predominantly atrophic nature.
(16) Quantitative analysis of Golgi-Cox impregnated material reveals that in lurcher chimeras the Purkinje cell dendritic arbor is reduced by more than 60% compared to wild-type animals.
(17) In lurcher mice, Purkinje cells degenerate during the first few postnatal weeks, after receiving synaptic contacts from both inferior olivary neurons and granule cells.
(18) Lurcher is an autosomal dominant mutation in the mouse.
(19) Cerebella of Lurcher and control age-matched (from P8 to P16) mice were analysed by calbindin immunostaining, silver impregnation and quantitative electron microscopy.
(20) These benzodiazepine binding sites in washed homogenates or tissue sections displayed a gamma-aminobutyrate-induced enhancement of [3H]flunitrazepam binding which occurred to the same extent in both Lurcher and normal cerebellum, a facilitatory effect which could be blocked by the addition of bicuculline methobromide.
Poacher
Definition:
(n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
(n.) The American widgeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(4) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
(6) By the end of September, a record 704 rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa and 47 in Kenya this year.
(7) The BBC will be asked to disclose the pay of stars who earn more than the £450,000 a year paid to director general Tony Hall – a plan described as a “poacher’s charter” by media executives who suggest that the broadcaster’s rivals could use the new rules to pick off the BBC’s best-paid presenters.
(8) Roger Gower, 37, was tracking criminals who had killed three elephants near the Serengeti national park when a poacher opened fire with an AK-47 rifle on 29 January last year.
(9) Funded by a $5 million grant from Google, WWF's aim is to find reliable ways of integrating imagery from unarmed drones with real-time information about the location of poachers, armed ranger patrols, and electronically tagged rhinos so that rangers can be optimally deployed to protect the animals.
(10) They are training with Hasadin, a team of elite rangers formed in June 2015, whose mission is to stop the Siamese rosewood tree from being driven to extinction by poachers.
(11) | Sean Willmore Read more On 17 February, a young ranger with the Kenyan Wildlife Service was shot dead by elephant poachers in Tsavo national park.
(12) Within two minutes he stuck out a boot to convert Benedikt Hüwedes’ flick-on from a Toni Kroos corner, a true poacher’s instinct, for his 15th goal on the World Cup stage.
(13) "If the poacher hacks off the horn, he'll immediately see it's contaminated.
(14) In 2013, as many as 300 elephants died in Hwange park after poachers laced salt pans with cyanide.
(15) We did so with permission of the Guatemalan government and without injuring any of the poachers.
(16) The UK needs to find its own ways of turning poachers into gamekeepers, because the threat to the UK's critical infrastructure, and the secrets held by its companies, is now predominantly online and many of the smartest minds are on the wrong side of the legal fence.
(17) One convicted Kenyan poacher who used a spear to kill 70 elephants and cut off their tusks with an axe to sell for £80 a kilo, said he did it because it was “just business.” The demand is not local but comes from south-east Asia, where an increasingly affluent middle class buys ivory that has been carved into trinkets and ornaments , and millionaires quaff ground-down rhino horn in wine as a status symbol .
(18) Last week, poachers killed over 80 elephants in Zimbabwe in one incident where a water hole was poisoned with cyanide.
(19) The countries at the meeting agreed to a series of actions, including addressing corruption, adopting legislation for tougher penalties against poachers, and recruiting more law enforcement officers.
(20) Loïc Rémy's late poacher's strike meant the closing seconds were quite frantic – ludicrous in view of what had gone before – but Newcastle had to be content with salvaging a little self-respect from the evening.