Example sentences for: opossums

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  • The people who followed the Lord were called the twelve opossums .

  • 67 mm) in superovulated opossums [ 22 ] . This increased size of developing follicles in exposed opossums is similar in magnitude to that seen in the pre-Graafian follicles of rats between diestrus and proestrus [ 23 ] . Prepubertal pine voles exposed to male urine also showed an increase in the number of largest follicles, but with no change in atresia [ 24 ] , as in our study.

  • Juvenile female opossums (n = 28) were weaned at 56 days and individually housed at 84 days in polycarbonate cages (30 × 30 × 15 cm) in a mixed-sex colony in an American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care-approved facility in the Botany and Zoology Building at The Ohio State University.

  • Pheromone exposure activates the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis as evidenced in increased plasma LH in opossums [ 32 ] and voles [ 33 ] , and ovarian activation and subsequent steroid hormone production could stimulate somatic growth indirectly by effects on growth hormone and fat deposition, or alterations in metabolism and appetite.

  • All procedures relating to care and use of opossums in this study were described in protocols approved by the Institutional Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committee at The Ohio State University.


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