(n.) Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.
(n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma ANF of both groups of nonhibernating marmots was significantly higher (P less than 0.01) than that the hibernating group, but there was no difference between nonhibernating males and females.
(2) The aim of this study was to determine the effects of circulating catecholamines and light on the daily melatonin rhythm in the marmot.
(3) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
(4) "By all means make special efforts on the poorest," says Marmot.
(5) An earlier version misquoted Michael Marmot as referring to a contraction of capital and income, instead of a concentration of capital and income.
(6) When Sir Michael Marmot published his official report earlier this year examining the link between health and wealth, the findings demonstrated an alarming "social gradient".
(7) Responses of normothermic and hibernating marmots to manipulations of the preoptic-hypothalamic temperature (TPO) were studied.
(8) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(9) It was concluded that normothermic marmots have a RAA system comparable to other mammalian species.
(10) Over 75% of local governments are now working to embed Marmot principles in their approaches to improving health and reducing inequalities, and the Institute of Health Equity have developed partnerships across London, England and Europe to further develop and implement approaches to health inequality.
(11) There were bears out west, mountain lions, coyotes and wolves, badgers, marmots, golden eagles – and what did we have?
(12) Hunting, skinning and eating marmots or other infected animals are the main causes of infection.
(13) Extras: Mountain Marmots morning ski school, £249 per child, Monty’s Afternoon Club, including lunch, £239 per child, skifamille.co.uk MARCH: FOR SPRING SKIING It’s low season again, so the crowds have gone, prices are lower, and the snow should be good – along with some warmer spring days, when there’s ample opportunity to sit outside for a long lunch in the sun.
(14) So, while the response to the Marmot review locally and nationally has more than met our expectations and hopes, there are also some worrying signs.
(15) It will be chaired by Sir Michael Marmot and will include some eminent statisticians, none of whom have been involved in the breast screening controversy before.
(16) In brown adipose tissue of alp-marmot (Marmota marmota), badger (Meles meles) and Wistar rats steroids of C21- and C19-type are identified and quantified.
(17) Body contact with euthermic nestmates warmed torpid marmots passively.
(18) The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isozymes from heart, liver, kidney and skeletal muscle in Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana robusta) in non-hibernation were investigated in the present experiment.
(19) Glucose uptake was measured throughout the year in marmots (Marmota flaviventris) by the hyperglycemic clamp technique.
(20) Adrenal steroid secretion rates and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system were studied in the normothermic marmot.
Rodent
Definition:
(v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
(v. t.) Gnawing.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
(n.) One of the Rodentia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(2) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
(3) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
(4) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(5) This model of protective immunity in a Brugia-susceptible small rodent may provide a useful system for identification of molecularly defined filarial-protective immunogens.
(6) The receptor pattern observed in tumors does not support the hypothesis previously raised in the case of chemically induced colonic tumors in rodents.
(7) It is concluded that these rodent studies do not implicate any specific inhalational anesthetic agent in fetal toxicity, and that the effects of additional factors, such as stress, must be considered.
(8) In the course of routinely performed subchronic toxicity studies with laboratory rodents, functional neurotoxicity, i.e.
(9) Particularly striking is the distribution of CpG dinucleotides within human and rodent APRT genes.
(10) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
(11) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
(12) The differences in immunoreactivity between rodent and human amyloid plaques are consistent with other findings showing that cellular genes, not infectious purified prions, encode PrP.
(13) These products, as well as several synthetic intermediates, were evaluated for antifilarial activity against Molinema dessetae either in vivo in its natural host, the rodent Proechimys oris, or in vitro by a new test using cultures of the infective larvae.
(14) An increased neuronal activity was obtained by exercising the rats in a commercial rodent treadmill a couple of hours per day for 14 days.
(15) In a series of experiments we found that 1) growth rates of hamsters offered the Lyric diet alone or in conjunction with the standard rodent diet exceeded those of hamsters offered only the standard rodent diet.
(16) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
(17) With repeated administrations, rodents become increasingly sensitive to the stimulant properties of amphetamine, a phenomenon termed sensitization.
(18) Although the overall rate of thymidine incorporation was lower than that for rodent cells, human hepatocytes were sensitive to lower concentrations of these growth factors, and the degree of stimulation was similar.
(19) Daily cocaine injection into rodents produces a progressive increase in the motor stimulant effect of acute cocaine administration.
(20) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.