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The area of an acre was standardized by Edward I as being land 40 rods long by 4 rods wide.
Then rods were suspended with the tissue positioned 5 mm above stirring bars rotating at 1,200 rpm and uptake was measured for 2 min. in 37°C warm, oxygenated Ringer's solution with 1 mM taurocholate.
I was taught that five and a half yards made up one rod, pole, or perch; thus, four rods equalled twenty-two yards, the length of a cricket pitch, ten times that made a furlong, and there were eight furlongs to a mile.
We found that photoreceptor-specific genes typically showing high, retina-specific expression that began around one week after birth, coinciding exactly with the previously reported increase in expression of rhodopsin and other rod-specific genes [ 13 14 15 ] . We typically saw higher expression of photoreceptor-specific genes in microSAGE libraries made from microdissected outer nuclear layer (97% rods versus 70% rods for whole retina) and, in many cases, higher expression in P10.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."