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Menhaden
Definition:
(n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(2) The respiratory function of heart mitochondria from the menhaden oil-supplemented dogs was not decreased from that of dogs on standard chow only.
(3) The effects of 5, 10 and 20% dietary menhaden oil (MO) on the composition of heart lipid classes and fatty acids were studied.
(4) Prostaglandin E and leukotriene (LTB4) syntheses, ODC activity and mammary tumorigenesis were significantly inhibited by feeding the diet containing menhaden oil or by adding 0.5% DFMO to any of the high fat diets.
(5) Menhaden oil-fed animals showed enhanced survival compared with safflower oil control animals 20 h after endotoxin (87 vs 63%, p less than 0.05).
(6) In the first set of experiments, two groups of male weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were fed semipurified diets containing 10% corn oil (control group) or 10% menhaden oil (experimental group).
(7) Rats were fed either a fat-free diet supplemented with 10% menhaden oil or a control diet for four months.
(8) Dietary menhaden oil reduced LTE4 and PGE2 synthesis at both levels of dietary n-6 in the low fat study.
(9) The protective effect of the (n-3) fatty acids in menhaden fish oil on acute cerebral ischemia was investigated in cats.
(10) Kupffer cells, the fixed macrophages of the liver, were obtained from rats pair fed diets for 6 weeks with 15% of calories supplied as menhaden (high n-3), corn (control), or safflower (high n-6) oils.
(11) The intermediates and final products of cellular acylation were determined by chromatographic methods at various times over a period of 1-24 h. There was little selectivity in the uptake among the oligo- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids of menhaden oil, when either oil or esters were fed.
(12) Diets rich in linoleic acid (CO) from corn oil, or in linoleic acid and either alpha-linolenic acid (LO) based on linseed oil or n-3 fatty acids (MO) from menhaden oil were fed to male and female Cynomolgus monkeys for 15 wk.
(13) Group A (control) was supplemented with 10% beef tallow oil, while group B received 10% Menhaden fish oil.
(14) Two trials were conducted to evaluate a select menhaden fish meal (SMFM) as a protein source in starter diets for 390, 3-wk-old weaned pigs.
(15) The effects of feeding menhaden oil (MO), rich in omega-3 fatty acids, or supplemental vitamin A [as retinyl acetate (RA)], on the growth of DU 145 human prostate cancer cells were studied in athymic nude mice.
(16) The current report demonstrates that diets containing 10% or 20% refined menhaden fish oil that contains high concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids also supports these enzymes in a manner similar to that of oils that contain high concentrations of the omega-6 fatty acid linoleate.
(17) The proportion of oleic acid was highest in the triolein oil-fed group, that of linoleic and arachidonic acid was highest in the safflower oil-fed group and the proportion of eicosapentaenoic acid was highest in the menhaden oil-fed group.
(18) The menhaden oil-fed group had consistently higher AMP demethylase activity, which increased up to 6 months and then declined.
(19) At 12 months it was about half that for females in the case of 22:6w3 and menhaden oil, and about zero for 18:3w3.
(20) The effect of dietary fat on the distribution of fatty acids within the bilayer of red cell membrane phosphatidylcholine was determined after feeding young female rats semipurified diets containing 10% of either hydrogenated cottonseed oil, menhaden oil, or corn oil for 4 days.