(1) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(2) After molting, resulting nymphs (n = 74) were fed on susceptible mice.
(3) The MT-2, derived from an adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) cell, the Molt-4F, a human T-cell line, and the Isk, an EB virus-transformed B-cell line, were found to have high-affinity receptors for somatostatin, a cyclic tetradecapeptide that inhibits the release of substances such as growth hormone, TSH, glucagon, insulin, secretin, gastrin and cholecystokinin.
(4) The demonstration of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and of VIP- and PHI-mediated protein phosphorylation in Molt 4b lymphoblasts provides evidence on a molecular level for neuropeptide modulation of human lymphocyte function.
(5) The ability of various gangliosides to inhibit the cytotoxic activity of natural killers (NK-cells) from Syrian hamsters towards human lymphoma MOLT-4 cells was studied.
(6) Measurements were made at the imaginal molt and on fed and crowded imagos at 10, 20 and 30 post-imaginal days.
(7) A comparison between primary cells and resulting cell lines showed that the cell lines established from patients with T-ALL (MOLT 12, 13, 14 and MOLT 16, 17) expressed similar phenotypes and isoenzyme patterns, but were different in a few specific aspects.
(8) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(9) 2'-Deoxycytidine (10 microM) also blocked dGTP accumulation in MOLT-4 cells.
(10) Cytotoxicity resulting from dUMP misincorporation was consistent with the enhanced toxicity of piritrexim which was observed when HL-60 cells or MOLT-4 cells were exposed concurrently to exogenous deoxyuridine.
(11) Molting occurred in almost all kinds of organs examined.
(12) Syncytium formation between HUT-78 cells persistently infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and uninfected CD4-bearing MOLT-4 or CEM cells results in a rapid destruction of the MOLT-4 or CEM cells.
(13) Furthermore these cells exhibited cytotoxic activity against several tumour cell lines including the syngeneic L1210, the TNF-insensitive P815 mastocytoma, the human MOLT-4 lymphoblastic leukaemia, as well as the murine TNF-sensitive L929 fibroblast cell line.
(14) Second instar larvae which survive the molt exhibit a marked reduction in growth and eventually die as small second instar larvae.
(15) These lines of evidence were in accord with previous accounts of the so-called "molt inhibiting hormone" (MIH) effect.
(16) The objective of this study was to determine the molting process of Dirofilaria immitis third-stage larvae (L-3) to fourth-stage larvae (L-4), as it occurred in vitro.
(17) Injections of ovine prolactin during the pause-inducing procedure significantly reduced the subsequent rate of loss of primary wing feathers, suggesting that in certain physiological states, PRL may function to suppress molting.
(18) 1-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (BV-araU) and E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil, a metabolite of BV-araU, did not affect either the anti-human immunodeficiency virus activity or the cytotoxicity of azidothymidine in MT-4 and MOLT-4 cells.
(19) After the L1 molt, energy metabolism in animals destined to become dauer larvae diverges from that of animals committed to growth.
(20) Thus, one may deduce that stopped larvae could have low levels of ecdysone, and perhaps these are the ultimate physiological cause of their arrested development before the critical larva-pupa molt.
Moult
Definition:
(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
(v. & n.) See Molt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(2) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(3) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(4) A sharp rise in trehalose level of haemolymph is observed towards the end of 4th instar accompanied with sudden fall of the sugar in fat body during the same period, but after moulting blood trehalose abruptly decreases.
(5) The allatectomy in the 4th instar larvae of Rhodnius prolixus stops moulting in 93 per cent of the cases.
(6) The metathoracic musculature of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana was denervated by dissecting the nerves originating in the metathoracic ganglion on one side within 2 days after the last moult.
(7) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
(8) One hour after infection, primary larvae appear in the body cavity where they moult immediately.
(9) In females, however, the number of NSG was relatively more than that in males in the Spring premigratory phase but fewer in the moulting phase.
(10) Food intake raises and decreases gradually between two moults.
(11) Trans-stadial transmission was demonstrated through one moult only, and transovarial transmission did not occur.
(12) This in vitro assay, based solely on the occurrence or absence of worm aggregation following the final moult in culture, proved very easy to interpret rapidly and accurately.
(13) A molecular modeling study has proposed that, when Ca2+ binds to the N-terminal triggering sites, helices B and C separate from the helices D and A, thereby exposing a crucial interaction site for troponin I, the inhibitory subunit of troponin [Herzberg, O., Moult, J., and James, M. N. G. (1986) J. Biol.
(14) Three developmental stages were investigated--1 day, 14 days, and 6 weeks after adult moulting.
(15) The effects of the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) were observed on the larval-larval and larval-pupal moulting cycles of Tenebrio molitor, after treatment at ecdysis.
(16) Virus persisted transstadially as shown by the presence of an average of 10(3.4) PFU in newly moulted adults.
(17) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(18) In normal, non-expanding toad epidermis more cells are produced than needed to replace cells lost by moulting.
(19) Variation in temperature (4-40 degrees C) had a significant effect on moulting rate of the ticks and transmission of theilerial parasites from nymphs to resultant adults.
(20) Thymus enlargement in both young and adults has been found to be accompanied by marked erythropoietic activity within the gland, and it is suggested that this activity is related to an increased demand for erythrocytes which may occur during moult and breeding.