(v. t. & i.) To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(2) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
(3) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
(4) This clone also was found to be incompatible with pAtK84b, a large plasmid encoding opine catabolism present in A. radiobacter strain K84.
(5) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
(6) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
(7) The production of opines is a natural example of genetic engineering of the biosynthetic machinery of plant cells for the benefit of the bacterial pathogen.
(8) This is an Islamist who shakes hands with unveiled women and opines that Christians often have more self-respect than Muslims.
(9) We constructed cassettes which contained either the putative transport genes only or the complete occ or noc region; all constructs, however, included the elements necessary for opine-induced expression of the genes (the regulatory gene and the inducible promoters).
(10) Strains MBA209 and NA513 utilized mannopine and mannopinic acid, but not the other two mannityl opines.
(11) They opine that this function is of secondary importance except for the frontal and internal occipital pillars.
(12) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
(13) Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens are conjugal elements whose transfer is induced by certain opines secreted from crown galls.
(14) His elevation as a Conservative folk hero stalled after he opined on whether the "Negro" shouldn't be back in chains.
(15) Before you know it anyone who wants to be considered serious is opining that the country is "obviously insolvent".
(16) "It was the second time hosting the Academy Awards for Ellen DeGeneres, whose first stint as host in 2007 was one of the decade's best," he opined.
(17) In his letter delivering the cut to Sue Campbell , chair of the Youth Sport Trust, Gove opined that, while he recognised schools have "increased participation" of children in PE, the number playing competitive sport "has remained disappointingly low".
(18) Opine synthase activities were also observed in homogenates made from these tumors.
(19) Other compounds include specific monosaccharides and acidic environments which potentiate vir gene induction, acidic polysaccharides which induce one or more chromosomal genes, and a family of compounds called opines which are released from tumorous plant cells to the bacteria as nutrient sources.
(20) The enzyme catalyzed a reversible oxidation-reduction reaction of opine-type secondary amine dicarboxylic acids.
Ovine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Developmental changes are delineated, with particular reference to recent work on the ovine blood-brain barrier.
(2) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
(3) Cells (10(5] were incubated at 37 C for 3 h in medium 199 in the presence or absence of 10 nM ACTH, 10 nM ovine PRL, 10 nM ovine GH, 50 nM hCG, or 50 nM human chorionic somatomammotropin.
(4) Reductions of similar magnitude were obtained following intracranial administration of turkey, ovine or human GH.
(5) Endothelial cells derived from the ovine pulmonary artery and ovine neutrophils were used.
(6) Arginine vasopressin (AVP), oxytocin, and angiotensin II all appeared to be more potent in day 4 than in day 0 cells in the perifusion system, and the synergism of AVP with ovine CRF was also increased.
(7) There was no evidence obtained in this study which suggested that ovine luteal cells were coupled electrically.
(8) Serum LH levels in rhesus monkeys are commonly measured by a radioimmunoassay (RIA) utilizing ovine LH as the radioligand and a novel antiserum to ovine LH.
(9) The respective concentrations effecting 50% inhibition of ovine placental aromatase activity (the I50) for econazole, 4-hydroxyandrostenedione, imazalil, miconazole, ketoconazole and aminoglutethimide were 0.03, 0.05, 0.15, 0.50, 5.0 and 5.5 microM.
(10) Human beta-melanotropin and human beta-endorphin showed only a minimal degree of cross-reaction, while ovine beta-lipotropin showed a partial but significant degree of cross-reactivity.
(11) All hormone preparations except ovine prolactin enhanced the ability of the pancreases of hypophysectomized rats to secrete insulin in the isolated pancreas perfusion system.
(12) Day 6 sheep morulae were cultured in vitro for 48 hours in a bicarbonate-buffered salt solution supplemented with various concentrations of ovine serum or of these components or protein fractions of serum.
(13) F1-F6, of laying hens to ovine LH (40 micrograms), ovine FSH (1200 micrograms), and PMSG (800 micrograms).
(14) To test the hypothesis that prostacyclin dilates the fetal placental circulation in vivo, we measured blood flow by the radioactive microsphere technique in six unanesthetized near-term ovine fetuses before and during prostacyclin infusion.
(15) We have examined the effects of alveolar macrophages (AM) obtained after challenge with alpha-thrombin on 125I-labeled albumin permeability across ovine pulmonary artery endothelial monolayers.
(16) Conversely, in 5 pregnant and 1 non-pregnant tammar injected with ovine prolactin on Day 23, to mimic the condition induced by advancing the time of parturition with progesterone, the decline in plasma progesterone was not advanced and the endogenous prolactin pulse, parturition, post-partum ovulation and the LH pulse all occurred after intervals similar to those of controls.
(17) Immunoreactive ovine LH (I-oLH) and immunoreactive ovine FSH (I-oFSH) concentrations were measured in sera and pituitary extracts.
(18) Anti-salmon prolactin, but not anti-rat or -ovine prolactin, gave a specific staining of the acidophils of the rostral pars distalis (RPD), while anti-trout growth hormone (GH), but not anti-rat GH, stained similar but always separate cells in the proximal pars distalis (PPD).
(19) Similar effects occurred in dose-related fashion in male doves given ICV injections of ovine prolactin.
(20) Two microimmunodiffusion tests (MIDT) for detection and measurement of ovine progressive pneumonia antibody are described.