(n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
(n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
(2) Six samples of canned tuna, albacore, yellowfin, and skipjack, in water or oil pack were analyzed in duplicate by a fluorometric method and the AOAC colorimetric method.
(3) By means of a simple procedure involving two gel filtrations and an ion-exchange chromatography, alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase was purified to an electrophoretically homogeneous form from skipjack liver, in which the enzyme is the dominant glycosidase.
(4) During hypoxia, skipjack and yellowfin tunas show a decrease in heart rate and increase in ventilation volume, as do other teleosts.
(5) Among the muscles of six fish species, three mammals, and a bird, white muscle of skipjack tuna showed the highest buffering capacity (BC) in the pH range 6.5-7.5, followed by the muscle of little-piked whale, chicken pectoralis minor, and mackerel white muscle.
(6) A method was developed to obtain heavy meromyosin (HMM) from the tryptic digest of skipjack tuna dorsal myosin.
(7) These results suggest that skipjack alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase exists as an active dimer at acidic pH and as inactive monomer at neutral or alkaline pH.
(8) On eating preparations of a particular variety of fish, the skipjack (bonito), patients with tuberculosis on isoniazid repeatedly developed symptoms very similar to those of histamine poisoning.
(9) This occurs at a higher inhalant water PO2 (between 130 and 90 mmHg) in skipjack tuna than in yellowfin tuna (between 90 and 50 mmHg).
(10) A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH-D3) in tissues of fishes was established, and using this method the tissue distribution of the sterols in lamprey (Entosphenus japonicus), great blue shark (Prionace glauca), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) and albacore (Thunnus alalunga) was investigated.
(11) The results suggest that large quantities of vitamin D3 in the liver of skipjack and albacore are supplied by other biosynthetic routes or by intake of vitamin D3 rather than by photochemical biosynthesis.
(12) The effects of temperature change (in vitro) on acid-base balance of skipjack tuna blood were investigated.
(13) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(14) In these circumstances the high histamine content of skipjack and the interference by isoniazid with the metabolism of the amine presumably play complementary roles in the production of histamine poisoning; each of these factors by itself is apparently inadequate to produce such intoxication.
(15) Lactate and glucose turnover rates were measured by bolus injection of [U-14C]lactate and [6-3H]glucose in cannulated lightly anesthetized skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis.
(16) Compounds mutagenic toward Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat-liver homogenates (S9) were formed when fish flesh was fried at 199 degrees C. Three species of Hawaiian fish commonly consumed in Hawaii (skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis; yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus; and milkfish, Chanos chanos) were cooked in an electric skillet, along with samples of sole (Microstomus pacificus).
(17) The symptoms and the circumstances leading to the reactions are almost identical with those previously reported with another variety of tropical fish, the skipjack or bonito.
(18) When correcting for body mass and temperature, skipjack tuna has at least as high or even higher lactate turnover rates than those recorded for mammals.
(19) Skipjack was found to contain probably the highest concentration of histamine reported in fish.
(20) In dried skipjack meat and salted salmon eggs, umami substances such as Glu and inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) were found to be important contributors to their tastes as well.
Yellowfin
Definition:
(n.) A large squeteague.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contributors propose a study of the labour conditions (microclimate, work load and intensity) in processing of dried yellowfin fish, describe results of the psycho-physiological and clinical studies, including medical examinations, epicutaneous testing, ventilation capacity of the lungs and peripheral blood laboratory studies.
(2) Six samples of canned tuna, albacore, yellowfin, and skipjack, in water or oil pack were analyzed in duplicate by a fluorometric method and the AOAC colorimetric method.
(3) It was established that the technological processes of drying yellowfin fish exhibited exposure to the biological factors causing irritations and sensibilization of the skin fraught with occupational diseases (dermatitis) and respiratory disorders (allergic rhinopathy and the pre-asthma syndrome).
(4) During hypoxia, skipjack and yellowfin tunas show a decrease in heart rate and increase in ventilation volume, as do other teleosts.
(5) This occurs at a higher inhalant water PO2 (between 130 and 90 mmHg) in skipjack tuna than in yellowfin tuna (between 90 and 50 mmHg).
(6) Yellowfin bream, demonstrating a similarity to milkfish, were not found to have any detectable cortisol from hatching until the third day, but presented 1.6-7.7 pg from the fifth to seventh day after hatching.
(7) She spent an hour preparing a huge spread of dishes, using her own curry powder: jackfruit curry, crispy chewy aubergine, bitter gourd salad, fish balls, mango chutney and ambulthiyal – chunks of yellowfin tuna steeped in spices.
(8) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(9) Single nerve fiber discharge was recorded from O2 sensitive receptors in the first gill arch of the yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, in vitro.
(10) The fluorescence decay kinetics of the tryptophyl residues of sperm whale and yellowfin tuna myoglobin have been determined by using time-correlated single photon counting, with picosecond resolution.
(11) The whole-animal content of the cortisol was measured in embryos and larvae of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis), milkfish (Chanos chanos), and yellowfin bream (Acanthropagrus latus) by radioimmunoassay following the validation of an extraction method.
(12) Comparison of peptide sequences from yellowfin tuna myoglobin with corresponding regions of mammalian myoglobins shows obvious homology around the heme-attachment site and the carboxyl terminus, but marked dissimilarity is evident at other locations, such as the amino terminal region.
(13) Compounds mutagenic toward Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat-liver homogenates (S9) were formed when fish flesh was fried at 199 degrees C. Three species of Hawaiian fish commonly consumed in Hawaii (skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis; yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus; and milkfish, Chanos chanos) were cooked in an electric skillet, along with samples of sole (Microstomus pacificus).
(14) Proton NMR spectra of met-aquo-myoglobin have been recorded in whole dark muscle from yellowfin tuna for the first time; in addition, spectra of the met-aquo, met-cyano, and deoxy forms were recorded in solution.
(15) The isolation, purification, and characterization of metmyoglobin reductase from yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) is described.
(16) Myoglobins from rat, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), buffalo sculpin (Enophrys bison) hearts, and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) red skeletal muscle were partially purified and their O2 binding affinities determined.
(17) The monogeneans Anoplodiscus australis and A. cirrusspiralis infect the fins of their respective hosts, the yellowfin bream, Acanthopagrus australis, and the snapper, Pagrus auratus.
(18) Amino acid sequences of the soluble tryptic peptides of yellowfin tuna myoglobin, comprising 60% of the total residues, are presented.
(19) The results have been compared with other known myoglobins, particularly those of yellowfin tuna.
(20) A selenoprotein, with an approximate molecular weight of 2000, was isolated from yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) liver.