(n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stomach of Anolis carolinensis (Reptilia: Iguanidae) has four histologically and histochemically distinct regions.
(2) Studies were conducted to explore vitamin A transport in the non-mammalian vertebrates, especially Pisces, Amphibia, and Reptilia, and to isolate and partially characterize piscine retinol-binding protein.
(3) Ectoplasmic specializations (ES) facing spermatids were studied in species representative of four classes of non-mammalian vertebrates (Pisces--bluegill; Amphibia--bullfrog; Reptilia--red eared turtle; Aves--domestic chicken).
(4) We therefore propose that: liver pigment cells of Amphibia and Reptilia should be classified as "Extra Cutaneous Pigment Cells from Histocytic Origin".
(5) Reptilia are discussed as useful experimental animals for studying the kindling phenomenon.
(6) Immunocytochemical and cytofluorimetric studies were performed in several species of different classes (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia and Aves), in order to ascertain the presence of ACTH-like molecules in blood cells.
(7) Owing to interest in the original function and evolution of cytochrome P-450 this enzyme system was studied in four species each at different levels on the phylogenetic tree, representing Agnatha, Selachi, Teleostei, and Reptilia.
(8) The microtubular density was assessed with the electron microscope in 3 microns myelinated fibers, myelin excluded, of 11 species from the following classes: Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia.
(9) Plasma membranes were isolated from the livers of various animal species representing the four vertebrate classes: Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia.
(10) The thymus gland of the adult viviparous lizard, Chalcides ocellatus (Reptilia, Sauria, Scincidae) undergoes conspicuous morphological changes in relation to gestational period.
(11) There were recorded 92 species of the naturally infected by the erysipeloid causative agent invertebrate inhabitants of the sea, fish, amphibia, reptilia, birds, mammals and ectoparasites of the warm-blooded animals.
(12) But no azo-dye deposit can be seen on the microvilli in the jejunum of amphibia and fishes, nor the ileum of reptilia, amphibia and fishes.
(13) The tuatara is the only surviving member of the ancient Sub-Order Rhynchocephalia, and it seems likely that testosterone functions as a male sex hormone in this species, as it does in other members of the Class Reptilia.
(14) A battery of seven lectins and several conventional mucin histochemical techniques were used to identify the epithelial mucins of the gallbladder of ten species: man, rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, mammalia), hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, mammalia), chicken (Gallus gallus, bird), sparrow (Passer domesticus, bird), moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica, reptilia), ladder snake (Elaphe scalaris, reptilia), lake frog (Rana perezi, amphibia), natterjack toad (Bufo calamita, amphibia) and gilthead sea bream (Sparus auratus, fish).
(15) n. (Heterakoidea, Heterakidae), parasite of the gut of the lizard Podarcis dugesii Milne-Edwards, 1829 (Reptilia, Lacertidae) from Madeira Island is described.
(16) Three types of cell degeneration were observed at early embryonic stages of the development of cerebellar cortex of Gallotia galloti (Reptilia: Lacertidae).
(17) The hepatic beta-adrenergic receptor was found to be expressed in all animals studied; the hepatic alpha 1-adrenergic receptor was absent in Amphibia and Reptilia, co-expressed with the beta receptor in Aves, and dominant over the beta receptor in Mammalia.
(18) For the first time in reptilia peripolar cells are found, they are situated on the basal membrane of the external part of the glomerular capsule near the vascular pole of the renal corpuscle.
(19) Using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, we demonstrated that lymphocytes containing ACTH-like molecules are first detectable in anuran amphibia, and are present in lymphocytes of reptilia and aves.
(20) The finding in eel brain of chicken GnRH II, which has previously been described in species of Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Osteichthyes, and Chondrichthyes, supports our hypothesis that this widespread structural variant may represent an early evolved and conserved form of GnRH.
Reptilian
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the reptiles.
(n.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results of tests on 4 mammalian, 19 reptilian, and 17 avian species confirmed the prediction that lack of optomotor response to monocular optokinetic stimulation in one of the two horizontal directions would correlate with afoveate retinal organization, whereas consistent optomotor responses to monocular stimulation in either horizontal direction would correlate with foveate organization.
(2) This pattern of connections supports the hypothesis that the reptilian lateral cortex is comparable to the entorhinal and piriform cortex of mammals.
(3) A feature of reptilian infections is the extreme scarcity of parasites in blood smears and in tissue impression smears but isolations may readily be made in culture media.
(4) The reptilian viral DNA polymerase elutes from phosphocellulose at 0.22 M salt.
(5) These results demonstrate that the reptilian febrile response is strikingly similar to avian and mammalian fever and suggest a common origin and perhaps function for the febrile mechanism.
(6) In the distal tubule a macula densa segment was found in all nephrons of the reptilian and mammalian type.
(7) Comparison of the amino acid contents of reptilian crystallins with those of mammals suggests that each orthologous class of crystallins from the evolutionarily distant species still exhibits similarity in their amino acid compositions and probably sequence homology as well.
(8) With less than 2 percent of all reptilian species examined, TSD apparently is absent in the tuatara, amphisbaenians and snakes; rare in lizards, frequent in turtles, and ubiquitous in crocodilians.
(9) An uptake overshoot for 3-O-methyl-D-glucose (20 microM) by reptilian BBM was observed only in the presence of an inwardly directed NaCl gradient and was abolished by 0.1 mM phlorizin.
(10) delta-Crystallin is a major lens protein present in the avian and reptilian lenses.
(11) Why you should read it: Shapiro may not be the world’s best analyst, but the piece offers a good insight into the reptilian mindset of a certain subset of conservatives as they gleefully watch the Trump presidency derail.
(12) A retrospective study was conducted to determine disease patterns in reptilian and amphibian populations at the Detroit Zoo from 1973 through 1983.
(13) The picosecond geminate rebinding of molecular oxygen was monitored in a variety of different human, reptilian, and fish hemoglobins.
(14) While a number of types of GSD have been identified in a wide variety of reptilian taxa, the expression of ESD in the form of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) in three of the five major reptilian lineages has drawn considerable attention to this area of research.
(15) In all four tissues, total MMSAs were at "reptilian" levels at birth and gradually increased to "mammalian" levels.
(16) One reptilian-type without Henle's loop and medullary tissue, and one mammalian-type with Henle's loop lying in medullary tissue.
(17) Evidence of complex responses of the "thermostat" at a reptilian level of organization
(18) Taken together with previous findings on three visual pigments from the reptilian, avian, and amphibian classes, our results support the hypothesis that all long-wavelength-absorbing vertebrate visual pigments are spectrally tuned in part through the binding of a chloride ion.
(19) The Taricha proteins were compared to mammalian, avian and reptilian serum albumins regarding molecular weight, amino acid composition, isoelectric character, solubility and the binding of hemin and dyes.
(20) Thus, the cellular distribution of carnosine immunoreactivity in reptilians is very similar to that observed in birds and mammals and is distinct from that seen in amphibia.