(1) The ultrastructural appearance of the pars distalis of the Plains viscacha is described.
(2) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(3) The pineal of viscacha (Lagostomus maximus maximus) is formed by two main cellular populations of pinealocytes and interstitial cells.
(4) There was no cross reaction between guinea pig PBP and PBP of other pregnant hystricomorphs (viscacha, degu, and coypu).
(5) The myoglobin of casiragua differs from that of viscacha (another hystricomorph) at 6 positions.
(6) Sections of ovary from plains viscacha, cat, ferret, rabbit, rat, guinea-pig and roe deer have been histochemically processed to demonstrate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) in nervous and non-nervous tissue.
(7) These include: (1) polyovulation in some bats, tenrecs, the plains viscacha, and the pronghorn antelope; (2) cases of recurrent, consecutive, spontaneous abortions in humans; (3) some cases of surplus flower production and fruit abortion; (4) sex-ratio adjustment in red deer, mice, and coypus; (5) some types of cannibalism, including possible cases in mice, sharks, and wasps.
(8) Lanthanum hydroxide together with a fixative solution was injected into the third ventricle of the viscacha.
(9) Some blood vessels in the ovaries of guinea-pig and viscacha contained AChE.
Vizcacha
Definition:
(n.) Same as Viscacha.
Example Sentences:
(1) When vizcachas were exposed to natural illumination (day-night), pineal HIOMT activity did exhibit a diurnal rhythm.
(2) NAT activity of the vizcacha exposed to permanent darkness exhibited an abrupt increase, values being lower during permanent illumination.
(3) "Even up here there are living creatures: vicuñas, rheas and vizcachas.
(4) The experiments described in the present paper were aimed to study the vizcacha pineal N-acetyltransferase (NAT) and hydroxyindole-o-methyl-transferase (HIOMT) activities under different lighting regimens.
(5) Our findings indicate that the male adult vizcacha under natural conditions exhibits an annual reproductive cycle.
(6) The control group consisted of vizcachas caught in their natural habitat and maintained under continuous darkness; the experimental group consisted of animals maintained under constant light (1076 lx) for 8 days.
(7) Either continuous darkness or continuous light abolished the daily variations of vizcacha pineal HIOMT activity.
(8) Seasonal changes in reproductive activity in the adult male vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus maximus), a South American rodent, were investigated.
(9) Pineal glands of vizcachas collected from their natural habitat were studied.
(10) In the present work we investigated the presence of testosterone in serum and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) receptors in testes of the vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus maximus), a South American rodent.
(11) Vizcacha pineal HIOMT activity (LD 12:12) does not exhibit significant change during the light and darkness phases.