(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.
Sardine
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
(n.) See Sardius.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(2) Two other species of fish that we really don't eat enough of are sardines and herring.
(3) There he caught the eye of the national party leadership with a TV ad attacking a local Labor policy for higher-density housing: it starred a woman opening a sardine can.
(4) The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities of aged rats fed the sardine oil diet increased significantly, whereas the activities of aged rats fed the lard diet decreased.
(5) The diet containing 5% sardine oil rich in eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids stimulated the mixed function oxidase system, but the diet containing 5% lard in which lard consisted of 10.7% linolenic acid and 1.5% linolenic acid seemed unlikely to stimulate enough the mixed function oxidase system.
(6) Furthermore, at the end of the storage period, the number of bacteria in the samples of frozen fatty sardines were higher than in the samples of frozen lean sardine.
(7) In the sample studied the proportion of foods contained in non-soldered as opposed to soldered cans has risen consistently during the survey and now accounts for 83% of all samples (excluding sardines).
(8) The enzyme highly purified from sardine liver had an Mr of about 121,000, with two identical subunits.
(9) 4.32pm: "I love Portuguese sardines," announces Kanjorski, going off at a slightly eccentric tangent.
(10) The best results were obtained with descaled sardine, and with the addition of 8% NaCl, 10% corn flour and a condiment mixture.
(11) We have synthesized 11 heterocyclic aromatic amines with chemical structures related to that of 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f] quinoline (IQ), a potent mutagen occurring in broiled sardines, fried beef and beef extract.
(12) I think the fact that we have communities which are so diverse and that you can have people squashed together like sardines in the London tube from different backgrounds, different cultures, different skin colours, different traditions, different perspectives and still do so peaceably and generously to each other I think is a great thing.
(13) "It's like sardines, it's packed solid and there are thousands of people trying to get out and nobody's moving," he told Sky News.
(14) Eating raw sardines was the only common epidemiological feature.
(15) It’s a small, unassuming restaurant where even the queue to get in is exciting – order a cold beer and watch one of the owners grill fresh sardines and red mullet by the door as you wait.
(16) The fatty acids in lipids from the ordinary meat of sardine was stable and those in the dark meat were extremely unstable during storage after cooking.
(17) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
(18) When they were built in the late 19th century, the brick-and-granite blocks were bustling with activity, as shoppers came and went from surrounding homes, sardine canneries, and the archipelago of Canadian islands just across the bay from what was then a town of more than 5,000.
(19) Sardine minced flesh presented the highest value of free fatty acids at-10 degrees C during the second month of storage (620 mg%) while cachama at the fourth month (230 mg%).
(20) However, certain non-scombroid fish, most notably mahi-mahi, bluefish, and sardines, when spoiled are also commonly implicated in histamine poisoning.