(n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.
(n.) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spectral analysis of the rhythmograms in the cod Gadus morhua callarias, plaice Pleuronectes platessa, herring Clupea harengus membras and trout Salmo gairdneri revealed complex wave structure of their cardiac rhythm.
(2) With polyclonal anti-vimentin serum the capillaries of the renal glomeruli showed a bright colour of plaice and only a week one in the rats.
(3) Isometric, electrically paced strips of cardiac ventricle from two species of fish (plaice, Pleuronectes platessa; cod, Gadus morrhua) with different tolerance to hypoxia were compared with respect to effects of hypercapnic acidosis.
(4) Compared with rat hepatocytes, the extent of sulphation was 100-fold lower in plaice hepatocytes whereas glucuronide formation was only 10-fold lower.
(5) Glucuronidation of three substrates prototypical for different UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UDPGT) isoforms in hepatic, renal, intestinal, and branchial microsomes of corn oil, 3-methylcholanthrene, Aroclor 1254, and clofibrate-pretreated plaice was investigated.
(6) Otherwise no differences were apparent in the fate of glucose C by plaice which could be related to the diets used.
(7) The observations indicate that isolated plaice hepatocytes provide a suitable system for studies of the detoxication of xenobiotic pollutants in fish liver.
(8) A methanolic extract of plaice skin, from which lipids had been removed, was chromatographed on alumina, eluted with decreasing concentrations of ethanol.
(9) Flatfish, mainly in the form of plaice, and crustacea were found to be the main source of organic arsenic compounds.
(10) Genomic Southern blotting of two other righteye flounders, the smooth flounder and the American plaice, illustrates another example of a differential amplification of AFP genes that correlates with a species' exposure to ice.
(11) The anti-rainbow trout MT serum was shown to cross-react totally with MTs from plaice, flounder, turbot, perch, salmon and pike, but exhibited no reactivity towards MTs from human, mouse, rat, worm or crab.
(12) The extracutaneous pigment cell system of the plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.) was examined by light and electron microscopy in selected regions, including two cutaneous regions for comparison.
(13) Endotoxin stimulates production of both C-reactive protein (CRP) and cortisol in the plaice within 24 hr.
(14) Conjugation of the endogenous substrates, bilirubin and steroids were 4- to 40-fold lower in the plaice than in the rat.
(15) The effect of serum opsonization on Vibrio alginolyticus (heat-killed)-stimulated chemiluminescence (CL) by plaice kidney- and peritoneal exudate-derived neutrophils was investigated.
(16) A low-molecular-weight protein induced in the liver of the plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) by exposure to cadmium was purified and characterized.
(17) Weight gains of plaice given diets containing carbohydrate as well as protein and lipid were superior to those given diets lacking carbohydrate.
(18) Steady-state and time-resolved anistropy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) fluorescence have been used to compare the hydrocarbon order of brain myelin membranes from a shallow water (plaice) and two deep-sea fish species (Coryphenoides rupestris and Coryphenoides armatus).
(19) The humoral immune response of plaice to infestations of selected metacercariae was studied.
(20) Both PER and NPU values were greater for plaice given diets containing carbohydrate than for fish diets without carbohydrate even when the total energy content of the diets was approximately the same.