(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.
Sheepy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling sheep; sheepish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Residents in the Leicestershire village of Sheepy Magna were evacuated from their homes after flooding.
(2) Homes in the Leicestershire village of Sheepy Magna were evacuated after flooding.