(n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, while gastric ulcers in the rat formed within a short time, they were histopathologically less severe than those in the pika.
(2) Therefore, the antagonism of phenoperidine action by morphine appeared not to occur at the opiate receptor site; the mechanism of the pika's natural tolerance to morphine may reside in molecular events that normally preceed (metabolism?)
(3) Compared with the rat, the pika showed differences in the appearance and degree of gastric ulcers formed by the injection of serotonin and reserpine.
(4) However, the pika is responsive to synthetic opiates such as etorphine, pentazocine and phenoperidine.
(5) It now appears that the nucleus is organized into distinct domains which include not only the nucleolus, but also previously unidentified regions such as the PIKAs.
(6) At the infection with the typical strain of the altai subspecies rare transmissions of the agent to Pallas' pika can take place as well as its long preservation in fleas.
(7) An immunohistochemical study of the anterior pituitary gland of the female Afghan pika was carried out to distinguish the ultrastructural features of GH, PRL, ACTH, TSH and LH cells.
(8) Pharmacokinetic analysis demonstrated that morphine enters the pika's brain as readily as it does the rat's.
(9) The skin of the pika (Ochotona rufescens rufescens) was found to be remarkably sensitive to the primary irritation of sodium hydroxide, as compared with the skin of the rabbit.
(10) The fleas of this species are capable to transmit not only the plague agent of the strains typical of this nidus but also non-typical ones which differ in some biological properties and are avirulent for most carriers but Pallas's pika.
(11) In the two species, following morphine administration, another unidentified component appears very soon (5 min) in pika blood plasma and much later (60 min) in rabbit blood plasma.
(12) Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis due to Emmonsia crescens was diagnosed in three of six Franklin's ground squirrels (Spermophilus franklini) captured in Rochester, central Alberts, Canada in the summer of 1971, and in one of 240 pikas (Ochotona princeps) collected in southwestern Alberta in 1969.
(13) The activities of the enzymes, SDH, MDH, LDH, beta HBDH, alpha GPDH, ALD, G6PDH and GPR, in the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of the pika were similar to those of the rabbit.
(14) The percentages found in the pika and the rabbit were essentially identical at determination.
(15) myiasis in pikas (Ochotona princeps) are reported from Oregon and Montana.
(16) The morphology of this region changes dramatically during the cell cycle and we have given it the name PIKA (for polymorphic interphase karyosomal association) based on preliminary evidence that the PIKA proteins may be associated with chromatin.
(17) Experimental gastric ulcer formation was performed in the pika and compared with that in the rat.
(18) Most of those in the pika contained a few moderately dense granules.
(19) The acinar cells of the pika consisted of light cells containing basophilic granules of low density, while in the volcano rabbit the acinar cells consisted of light and dark cells containing acidophilic granules of moderate density.
(20) Experiments on Daurian pikas confirmed that, in comparison with the PHA and AN tests, RIA ensured fourfold effectiveness in the detection of antigen F1.
Pipa
Definition:
(n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.
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(1) Although most previous studies have assumed that Silurana is the sister group of Xenopus, recent morphological work suggests that Silurana is more closely related both to the South American genus Pipa and to the African genera Hymenochirus and Pseudhymenochirus than it is to Xenopus.
(2) Hadopi was the same breed as the now comatose American Pipa ( Protect Intellectual Property Act ) and Sopa ( Stop Online Piracy Act ).
(3) Mutant pIPB showed 10% secretion, while 60%-70% secretion was observed for pIPA.
(4) The biology and behaviour of Pipa carvalhoi are compared to that of other pipid frogs, and it is suggested that the specialized breeding biology of the genus Pipa evolved as an adaptation to the life in small ponds and ditches which are rich in nutrients but poor in oxygen.
(5) Feeding, mating behaviour, communication, breeding biology, and development of Pipa carvalhoi are described.
(6) The filter apparatus of Pipa is somewhat reduced and seems modified for the retention of relatively large (20+ microns) particles.
(7) Special interest groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who helped write the resoundingly rejected Sopa and Pipa internet censorship bill are literally paying for a seat at the table, shaping the TPP to make sure it prioritises the profits and power of multinational corporations over people’s basic online rights to communicate and express themselves.
(8) Within hours of the unprecedented assault, Sopa , the Stop Online Piracy Act, was dead and a sister act, Pipa, a neat acronym for the tortuously titled Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act) was sunk too .
(9) We have applied the Pipas-McMahon algorithm based on free energy calculations to the search for a 5S RNA base-pair structure common to all known sequences.
(10) Outdated units of Adsol blood, were divided into two aliquots and incubated with equal volumes of a solution of 100 mM pyruvate and inosine, 103 mM phosphate and 5 mM adenine (PIPA) or 0.9% saline.
(11) Two years on from success against Sopa and Pipa in the US this mobilised community is taking on the next front in the battle for digital rights.
(12) We previously showed (M. J. Tevethia, J. M. Pipas, T. Kierstead, and C. Cole, Virology 162:76-89, 1988) that sequences downstream of amino acid 626 are not required for immortalization of primary MEFs.
(13) Use of PIPA produced greater-than-normal levels of adenosine triphosphate in the preserved erythrocytes.
(14) The main radioactive component in blood was 123I-PIPA for any species and the urinary components were metabolic conjugates of 123I-PIPA.
(15) In 2012, Swartz was one of the guiding lights of the movement against a pair of US laws, SOPA and PIPA, which threatened to damage the legal underpinning of the internet, by potentially blocking access to any site which hosted user generated content.
(16) CIC levels were analysed by means of KgB-ELISA (conglutinin binding enzyme linked immunosorbent assay), C1qB-ELISA (C1q-binding enzyme linked immunososrbent assay), RFb-ELISA (rheumatoid factor binding enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) and by PIPA (platelet 125J-labelled staphylococcal protein-A test).
(17) Last year the fans were shouting 'Pipa [Higuaín's nick-name] please stay' after we won the league in Bilbao.
(18) Swartz, an advocate for open access online, founded Demand Progress, to rally the online community against two internet censorship bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect IP Act (Pipa).
(19) Two insertion mutants, pIPA and pIPB, retained enzyme activity.
(20) Conglutinin-binding (KgB), C1q-binding (C1qB), platelet iodinated protein A test (PIPA) and RF-enzyme immunoassay (RF-EIA) gave positive results in 31%, 62%, 23% and 31% of the cases, respectively and separated cancer sera from normal blood donors (p less than 0.001).