(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.