(1) In regard to swimming performance, the weaver mutants swam with less ability but with more vigor than normal mice.
(2) However, cells grown in liquid medium swam normally and did not show any differences from wild-type cells in terms of swimming speed or tumbling frequency.
(3) The latest incident carries echoes of the case of another American, Evan Hunziker, who swam across the Yalu river from China to North Korea in 1996.
(4) Beppe Grillo , the former comedian who co-founded the M5S, made an impression on Sicilians when he swam the 3.5km (2.2-mile) stretch that divides the island from the mainland in 2012.
(5) However, when adapted to the dark for an hour or more, vis-à-vis pairs swam positively to the light.
(6) When rats swam in cold water for 10 min twice and were rewarmed by immersion in water at 38 degrees C during 20 min, embryo transport was accelerated despite that no changes occurred in the blood levels of sex steroids.
(7) The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr.
(8) He told the Guardian he swam across a river and borrowed a friend’s car to make it into Port Vila.
(9) After a 4-week conditioning period, the "Long" group underwent a 6-week period during which they swam up to 44,000 m.wk-1, while the "Short" group maintained their swimming at 22,000 m.wk-1.
(10) After four boats carrying nearly 600 people successfully landed in western Indonesia – some migrants jumped into the water and swam – a fifth carrying hundreds more was turned away early on Monday.
(11) Rats that swam for 3 h showed a 6-fold increase in serum creatine phosphokinase (SCPK) activity which declined to control values within 7 h after swimming.
(12) At all times, morphologically normal spermatozoa from donors and patients swam faster and had greater rolling frequency, flagellar beat frequency and amplitude than did abnormally shaped cells.
(13) The rats swam for 50 min in 34-35 degrees C water with a tail weight (5% of body wt).
(14) Before stimulation, glycogen was higher in rats that swam on the preceding day (supercompensated rats) compared with controls.
(15) After dilution in salt solution, some caput sperm exhibited circular motion, whereas most cauda sperm swam progressively.
(16) The cheers of 1,300 Norwegian teenagers carry far over the still grey waters where, on 22 July 2011, children swam for their lives .
(17) During observations the diver either stayed in one place for 30 min, swam transects or followed individual fish.
(18) Sperm recovered from the proximal region of the caudal epididymis, near the corpus, swam in either the helical or hyperactivated patterns, or a mixture of the two.
(19) Perhaps that whale swam up the Thames for a reason.
(20) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.
Swum
Definition:
() of Swim
(p. p.) of Swim
() imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squid (Illex illecebrosus, Loligo pealei) were cannulated in the vena cava and swum in a Beamish-type respirometer.
(2) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
(3) The breaststroke is swum “head up” with a woolly hat on.
(4) In the Morris water maze, both distance swum and time to find the platform increased with age.
(5) At 4 months, lesioned and grafted groups were all impaired compared to the normal controls in their swim time and distance swum to find the platform, and they did not show any spatially focussed search strategy in the spatial probe trial when the platform was removed from the tank.
(6) Exercised animals were swum daily for 60 minutes on days 1-9.
(7) In model 1, rats were swum in a water bath at 33 degrees C for 30 min, which increased tidal volume (VT) approximately 300% and frequency 60%; they were then allowed to rest for up to 4 h. In model 2, rats were exposed to 5% CO2-13% O2-82% N2 for 24 h, which increased both VT and frequency approximately 200%; these rats were then rested for up to 24 h. In both models we harvested a tissue fraction (lamellar bodies, lb) and two alveolar fractions--tubular myelin rich (alv-1) and tubular myelin poor (alv-2).
(8) Top tip Once a year, on Pony Penning Day , the wild ponies are rounded up by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department and swum across the channel from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island, where the foals are auctioned off to the public to raise money for managing the herd and keeping the pony population at sustainable numbers.
(9) Like Blatter, he has swum in the shark-infested waters of Fifa’s politics of patronage, favours and threats for far too long.
(10) In midcycle cervical mucus at 37 degrees C, beat frequencies and swimming speeds were greater than at 21 degrees C, but the trajectories were equally straight, and the distances swum per beat (kinetic efficiencies) did not differ.
(11) The opposite was true of acutely swum rats at 270 and 370 days of age.
(12) Groups of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) were continuously swum at 20 cm s-1 (1.0 body lengths s-1) for 0, 3, 30, and 200 days.
(13) In SWUM, intracellular [Na+] increased significantly in the plantaris (PL), red gastrocnemius (RG), and WG, but not in SOL.
(14) Two weeks later the animals were tested in a circular water maze for time and distance swum to find a submerged platform.
(15) Animals were swum to exhaustion at either 0700 or 1900 h, after which samples of soleus, white vastus lateralis, and red vastus lateralis muscles as well as liver were excised and subsequently analyzed for glycogen content.
(16) In experiment 2, semen extended in egg yolk Tris was cooled to 5 degrees C or layered onto a solution of 6% BSA in extender at 37 degrees C, from which the sperm that had swum into the BSA solution were recovered 2 h later and cooled to 5 degrees C. Sperm in both treatments were cryopreserved.
(17) The Dutch team’s third leg was swum by Inge Dekker, taking part in her fourth Olympics, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February and underwent surgery in March.
(18) Molecular sieving of plasma from rats which were swum repeatedly demonstrates that this N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR consists of both larger molecular weight N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR, e.g.
(19) In the nature of things there will have been some slippage: some voters will have died; and, as a result of normal political churn, some will have swum against the Ukip tide and departed for other parties.
(20) Japanese activists have swum ashore and raised flags on one of a group of islands at the centre of an escalating territorial dispute with China.