(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.
Woodchuck
Definition:
(n.) A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.
(n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to human hepatitis B core antigen, woodchuck hepatitis virus core antigen was observed only in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, but not in the nuclei.
(2) Retrospective analysis of necropsy findings of 705 woodchucks was performed to determine the prevalence and morphology of immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, its relationship to woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection, and the presence of major WHV antigens.
(3) The transcription of woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) genome was studied in the liver of chronically infected woodchucks by Northern blot, nuclease mapping and primer extension analysis.
(4) Ten milligrams of lyophilized plasma albumin fractions from hibernating ground squirrels, woodchucks, black bears, and polar bears produced similar inhibition, with partial reversal by naloxone.
(5) Excluding the tubular lumen, the Sertoli cell occupied from a high of 43.1% (woodchuck) to a low of 14.0% (mouse) of the tubular epithelium.
(6) A soy protein-based experimental diet for woodchucks (Marmota monax) is described.
(7) Integration of woodchuck hepatitis virus DNA was demonstrated by Southern blot analysis, although the secretion of woodchuck hepatitis surface antigen was not detected.
(8) The annual profile of serum levels of progesterone (P) and estradiol-17 beta (E2) was characterized in a seasonally breeding rodent, the woodchuck (Marmota monax).
(9) Microfilariae of Ackertia marmotae in blood or dermis were most commonly observed in trapped woodchucks.
(10) Livers from 128 captive woodchucks (Marmota monax) that were negative for serological markers of woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) were examined grossly and histologically.
(11) Ninety-eight to 100% of the AFP from normal, WHV-free woodchucks with physiologic AFP elevations and from WHV-carrier woodchucks with HCC bound to concanavalin A, indicating that virtually all of the AFP was glycosylated.
(12) Both monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) recognized the major HDAg polypeptides of 24 kilodaltons and 27 kilodaltons that were previously detected by polyclonal antibodies to HDAg in both liver and serum from HDV-infected humans, chimpanzees, and woodchucks.
(13) To assess the role of immunization against hepatitis delta antigen in the prevention of hepatitis delta virus infection, woodchuck carriers of woodchuck hepatitis virus were immunized with a 64 amino acid portion of hepatitis delta antigen from its N-terminal region.
(14) The woodchucks were divided into two groups according to the morphological classification of multifocal tumors: 1) three woodchucks had multifocal tumors that were widely separated and similar in size, which suggests a multiclonal origin of the tumors; and 2) one woodchuck had ten small multifocal tumors surrounding two large main tumors, which indicated intrahepatic metastasis from an original tumor.
(15) An 11-yr-old captive-raised male woodchuck (Marmota monax) presented with ataxia, poor balance, left-sided weakness, circling to the left and nystagmus with the fast-phase directed towards the left.
(16) The HCC developed in carrier woodchucks infected as newborns with only minor, if any, hepatitic changes but is associated with antigen-carrying hepatocytes and sometimes with hyperplastic nodules.
(17) Each of two woodchucks experimentally-inoculated with L. hardjo developed titers to L. hardjo.
(18) Congestive cardiomyopathy was diagnosed during post mortem examination in eight of 149 adult woodchucks from New York.
(19) The results also demonstrate that woodchuck HIT, like the bear HIT, did not act directly at opioid receptors.
(20) To discern the influence of viral and host factors on the kinetics of induction of HCC, we exploited the recent observation that ground squirrel hepatitis virus (GSHV) is infectious in woodchucks (C. Seeger, P. L. Marion, D. Ganem, and H. E. Varmus, J. Virol.