(n.) A North American rail (Porzana Carolina) common in the Eastern United States. Its back is golden brown, varied with black and white, the front of the head and throat black, the breast and sides of the head and neck slate-colored. Called also American rail, Carolina rail, Carolina crake, common rail, sora rail, soree, meadow chicken, and orto.
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(1) Each plasmid contained the structural genes sorA for an Enzyme II of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate:phosphotransferase system, sorD for a D-glucitol 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, sorE for an L-sorbose 1-phosphate reductase, and the corresponding regulator gene sorR.
(2) The structural genes sorD, sorA and sorE code for a D-glucitol-6-P dehydrogenase (27 kilodalton (kD)), an Enzymell (EllSor) activity specific for L-sorbose and an L-sorbose-1-P reductase (45kD).
(3) n. is described from the nasal turbinates of the sora, Porzana carolina, collected in Maryland and Ohio.
(4) They form an operon (gene order sorCpCDFBAME) inducible by L-sorbose, and their products have the following functions: SorC (36 kDa), regulatory protein with repressor-activator functions; SorD (29 kDa), D-glucitol-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; SorF and SorB (14 and 19 kDa, respectively), and SorA and SorM (27 and 29 kDa, respectively), two soluble and two membrane-bound proteins, respectively, of an L-sorbose phosphotransferase transport system; SorE (45 kDa), sorbose-1-phosphate reductase.
(5) The huge public reservoir in this regional centre has been empty for months and, according to Molu Duka Sora, local director of the government's Arid Lands programme, all the major boreholes in the vast semi-desert area are failing one by one.
Sura
Definition:
(n.) One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.
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(1) Stretch reflexes of posterior tibial (PT) and triceps surae (TS) muscles were studied electrophysiologically in 27 children with unoperated unilateral congenital equinovarus deformity, in an attempt to evaluate changes in tone of the leg muscles as a possible pathogenetic factor.
(2) Sixteen monkeys underwent chronic conditioning of the triceps surae H-reflex.
(3) Torque generated about the ankle joints during maximum isometric contraction of the plantar flexor muscles was measured on a subject 4 months after unilateral excision of the entire triceps surae.
(4) The aim of this study was to investigate the reflex effects on triceps surae and plantaris fusimotor neurones elicited by tonic stretch of the contralateral posterior biceps and semitendinosus (p.b.s.t.)
(5) Pyridostigmine significantly decreased the contracture of innervated triceps surae muscle in a frequency dependent manner.
(6) We have studied in 32 healthy subjects the EMG activity of biceps and triceps brachii, wrist flexors and wrist extensors, triceps surae and tibialis anterior, sterno-cleido-mastoideus (SCM) and splenius, during their passive shortening.
(7) The EMG pattern in standing subjects and patients consisted of short- and middle-latency responses (SL and ML) in the stretched triceps surae muscles and long-latency responses (LL) in the shortened tibialis anterior muscles.
(8) Individual triceps surae motor units were recorded by selective EMG electrodes during tonic stretch reflexes in the decerebrate preparations.
(9) Changes in the discharge rate of fusimotor neurones to hamstring muscles during long-lasting, fatiguing, contractions of the triceps surae muscles were studied in decerebrate cats.
(10) The results demonstrate that a conditioning tibial nerve H-reflex produced marked facilitation onto the contralateral triceps surae motoneurons, predominantly at longer-latency intervals.
(11) Moreover, when the triceps surae were stretched passively to produce a pattern and amount of tension similar to that seen during static hindlimb contraction, a significant reflex cardiovascular response occurred.
(12) Nine monkeys prepared with chronic fine-wire triceps surae (gastrocnemius and soleus) electromyographic (EMG) electrodes were taught by computer to maintain a given level of background EMG activity.
(13) However, after its injection into the triceps surae muscle both single- and two-chain toxin were found in the ipsilateral ventral horn of the spinal cord.
(14) The individual EPSPs evoked by the action of single Ia fibers from cat triceps surae (MG, LG, SOL) were recorded in homonymous and heteronymous motoneurons innervating these same three muscles.
(15) Sensory neurones arising from the triceps surae and plantaris muscles were subject to ;disuse' conditions for about 3 weeks by section of the ventral roots combined with severance of the Achilles tendon.
(16) We studied the intensity of stimulus currents eliciting just-visible muscle contractions in the lower leg (m. triceps surae) to see how this influenced the latency and success rate of sciatic nerve block.
(17) Monosynaptic excitatory post-synaptic potentials (e.p.s.p.s) were recorded from triceps surae motoneurones in the cat following section or chronic conduction block of the medial gastrocnemius (m.g.)
(18) Clonus of the triceps surae resolved in 48% of tizanidine and 40% of diazepam patients.
(19) Functional testing of at least one muscle group (m. triceps surae) appeared to be more reliable than manual testing according to MRC criteria.
(20) Each experimental condition consisted of a 4-minute period of massage of the ipsilateral and contralateral triceps surae and hamstring muscle groups (ITS, CTS, IHS, and CHS, respectively).