(1) Nucleotide sequence analysis established the genetic structure of two species of cDNA, isolated from a library of CAEV-infected tahr cells, and suggested that they represent rev-like transcripts.
(2) This report describes an acute respiratory disease in tahr that caused the death of 15 of 16 animals in an extensive exhibit of about 35 acres where they were housed together with a variety of other exotic species of ruminants.
(3) Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) are native to India and are a rare zoo exhibit.
(4) No specific lentiviral PCR products were detected in DNA from uninfected human or mouse monocytes, feline or bovine leukocytes, mouse, rat or human fibroblast cell lines, chicken embryo fibroblasts, Tahr lung cells, or cell lines infected with the following retroviruses which are not lentiviruses: Rous sarcoma virus, Moloney leukemia virus or Kirsten sarcoma virus, mouse mammary tumor virus, human T-cell lymphotropic virus I, and feline leukemia virus.
(5) The virus particles encode a reverse transcriptase with Mg++ preference, have a density in sucrose gradients of 1.16 g ml-1, and induce syncytia in permissive cell cultures such as Himalayan tahr ovary and canine fetal thymus lines.
(6) It was conjectured that the tahr died of a unique pneumonic form of malignant catarrhal fever.
(7) The pattern of expression of the caprine arthritis encephalitis virus genome (CAEV) in acutely infected tahr lung cells was found to be complex and temporally regulated.
(8) A retrovirus isolated from experimentally induced sheep lung carcinoma (SPCTV) was propagated in chronically infected Himalayan tahr ovarian cells and in normal sheep lung cells.
(9) A full-length DNA clone of the exogenous retrovirus, caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV), was isolated from high molecular weight DNA of CAEV-infected Himalayan tahr ovary cells.
Thar
Definition:
(n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
(v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme thar areas of departmental "underspends" were being identified along with areas where project deadlines have slipped.
(2) The Indian Meterological Department attributes the record heat to lack of atmospheric humidity, hot dry winds blowing across the south-western Thar desert and the effects of last year's El Nino cycle.
(3) Barmer district of Rajasthan in Thar desert and hitherto a hypoendemic area for malaria came in the grip of a severe malaria epidemic during 1990.
(4) India Across large swaths of the Thar desert in western India , traditional techniques for harvesting the little amount of rain that falls has helped people survive the powerful effects of the sun for centuries.
(5) The first case of mycetoma caused by Aspergillus nidulans has been described from India in a young farmer of Jaisalmer situated in the Thar desert of Western Rajasthan, India.
(6) Instead of Elsie Tanner in a too-tight skirt, it had everybody in satin-sheeted beds with everybody else (by 1985, there must have been more chlamydia than oil in them thar fields).
(7) From the observation tower in the Thar desert and as far as the eye can see, the dark blue arrays of a million solar panels can be seen sitting silently on the red dust.
(8) I’m confident that he will make the step-up to the managing director role quickly and effectively.” The deadline for applicants for the Channel 4 chairman role closes in November and Ofcom has made it clear thar it intends to appoint a successor to Burns before his tenure runs out at the end of January.
(9) You only could play if your belly had stars And the Plain Belly children had none upon thars.
(10) An electron microscopic study was performed of the cells which constitute thar anterior pituitary of the Macaca Mulatta female monkey.
(11) Although the specificity of the assay for quantitating plasma LH in other species was not categorically established, there was a good correlation between plasma LH concentration and reproductive state in the bontebok, impala, spring-hare, thar, cheetah, domestic horse and laboratory rat, suggesting the potential use of the antiserum in quantitating LH in a variety of mammalian species.
(12) As San Thar Myint cradles her baby in the hospital ward, she is in no doubt about what she wants.
(13) The deaths occurred in the Thar desert, part of Tharparkar district, some 350km (200 miles) from Karachi, which runs up to the border with India.
(14) Aridity increases from east to west to the Great Indian Desert or Thar Desert.
(15) Serum and pituitary homogenates from some African mammals (hyrax, reedbuck, sable, impala, tsessebe, thar, spring-hare, ground squirrel and cheetah, as well as the domestic sheep, cow and horse and laboratory rat and hamster) produced displacement curves parallel to that of the ovine LH standards.
(16) Her mother, San Thar Myint, found her lying prone on the ground, bleeding and in shock.
(17) It appears thar rat fetal MAO is under a strong thyroid control.