(n.) Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.
(n.) A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
Example Sentences:
(1) Catharanthus roseus (periwinkle) produces a wide range of terpenoid indole alkaloids, including several pharmaceutically important compounds, from the intermediate strictosidine.
(2) Degrees I and II ptosis and atrophy of the female breast can definitively be corrected by the modified periwinkle shell operation.
(3) A breeding of this leafhopper was initiated, and we demonstrated that it was able to acquire S. citri from infected periwinkles, multiply the organisms in its body and transmit them to healthy plants.
(4) While their double-shelled relations (clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc) specialise in filtering water to remove food particles, and their single-shelled little cousins (periwinkles, whelks, limpets, conches) specialise in, well, adorning a seafood platter, cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) specialise in a seriously impressive form of self-defence.
(5) 50% SW acclimated periwinkles show a general pattern of general stress response (decreasing MET and MDR, and increasing ND -Numerical Density of lysosomes- and lysosomal size).
(6) This hybridoma also gave a negative ELISA when tested against sieve tube preparations from periwinkles affected by citrus greening or Spiroplasma citri, but a positive ELISA when tested against phyllody-affected sieve-tube preparations.
(7) A new strain of wound tumor virus (WTV) has been isolated from a periwinkle plant (Catharanthus roseus) that was among several used as bait plants in a blueberry field.
(8) A substance which strongly precipitates human serum proteins is released into the environment by the southern periwinkle, Littorina angulifera.
(9) Reaction mixtures containing primer pair AY18pm yielded a DNA product of 1.6Kbp, when template consisted of DNA extracted from AY MLO- or DAY MLO-infected Catharanthus roseus (periwinkle).
(10) In the synchronous progression of the cell cycle induced by the addition of phosphate or auxin, the active accumulation of periwinkle PCNA mRNA was observed preferentially in the S phase.
(11) A DNA product of 1.0Kbp was obtained with primer pair AY19pm, when template consisted of DNA extracted from C. roseus infected by AY MLO, DAY MLO, or periwinkle little leaf (strain O-1) MLO.
(12) Periwinkle alkaloids in very low concentrations cause an intracytoplasmic sequestration of microtubule protein in the form of symmetrical, microtubular bodies.
(13) After fusion of the immunized spleen cells with myeloma cells, the supernatant fluids of the resulting hybridoma cultures were screened for the presence of antibodies in a differential avidin-biotin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using sieve tube preparations from either healthy or infected periwinkles as antigens.
(14) The carcass characteristics and nutritive value of the giant African land snails (A. achatina and A. marginata), the common garden snail (V. quadrata) and periwinkles (P. aurita and T. fuscatus) were assessed.
(15) Southern blot analysis, using plasmids from the severe strain of AY-MLO (SAY-MLO) as the probe, identified at least four plasmids in celery, aster, and periwinkle plants and in Macrosteles severini leafhopper vectors infected with either the dwarf AY-MLO, Tulelake AY-MLO, or SAY-MLO strain.
(16) These results indicate that the induction of mRNA for periwinkle PCNA occurred independently of the initiation of DNA replication, but that synthesis of certain proteins at the G1 phase was required for the induction of periwinkle PCNA mRNA at the S phase.
(17) Expression of mRNA for periwinkle PCNA was undetectable or very weak in quiescent cells, such as phosphate-starved cells, auxin-starved cells and cells in the stationary phase.
(18) Vincristine, other periwinkle alkaloids, and colchicine partially inhibit the energy dependent transport of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells.
(19) Treatment for 28 days with preparations of burdock (Arctium lappa), cashew (Anacardium occidentale), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), elder (Sambucus nigra), fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum), guayusa (Ilex guayusa), hop (Humulus lupulus), nettle (Urtica dioica), cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), sage (Salvia officinale), and wild carrot (Daucus carrota) did not affect the parameters of glucose homeostasis examined in normal mice (basal plasma glucose and insulin, glucose tolerance, insulin-induced hypoglycaemia and glycated haemoglobin).
(20) DNA amplification by polymerase chain reactions (PCR) was employed to detect host plant infection by several mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs), including the aster yellows (AY), dwarf aster yellows (DAY), and periwinkle little leaf (0-1) MLOs.
Winkle
Definition:
(n.) Any periwinkle.
(n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).
Example Sentences:
(1) Issues raised include the problem of labelling and the Rip Van Winkle situation of unanticipated recovery 14 years after this diagnosis was made.
(2) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
(3) Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B., and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol.
(4) Revisiting some of the seats of power after 40 years, I have felt like a Rip Van Winkle waking up after a revolution.
(5) We investigated the reaction mechanism for GTP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by canine cardiac microsomes enriched in fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), because previous studies reported that GTP utilization in cardiac SR occurs via a pathway very different from that for ATP utilization (for a review, see "Entman, M.L., Bick, R., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W.B., & Tate, C.A.
(6) Previous equilibrium binding experiments (S.A. Winkle and T.R.
(7) "There's a story doing the rounds at my local that Blackpool once resorted to using a flamethrower to thaw out their frozen pitch," writes Bill Winkles.
(8) It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Winkle, S. A., & Sheardy, R. D. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 6514-6521].
(9) The changes would see "attrition through enforcement" – the state-level clampdown pioneered by Kobach in Arizona, Alabama and several other states – extended across the entire US in an attempt to winkle undocumented workers out of the country.
(10) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
(11) Having failed to winkle Berezovsky out of London, the Kremlin pursued his money – going after his assets in Brazil, France (a stunning seaside villa in Cap D'Antibes), and other jurisdictions.
(12) And naturally the idea that a claimant could use closed material procedure to winkle out information from the intelligence services horrified the spies' lawyers.
(13) Strict guidelines indeed, but Olly Winkles is one of several readers to remember at least one hairy-faced winner.
(14) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
(15) Reed and S.A. Winkle, J. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, in press (1992)) have indicated that a small number of locations on the plasmid pBR322 may be high affinity binding sites for the carcinogen N-acetoxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (acetoxyAAF).
(16) Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear-reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
(17) Winkles (Littorina littorea) and mussels (Mytilus edulis) collected on the Cumbrian coast contain americium-241 and isotopes of plutonium discharged from the nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
(18) A reduction in number and size of digestive lysosomes in winkles acclimated to 75% of Sea Water evidences the functioning of regulatory mechanism of digestive cell volume.
(19) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
(20) Far harder to winkle out illegal entrants and overstayers.