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Proteasome activity is required for germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) in starfish and toad oocytes [ 44 45 ] and for activating Xenopus oocytes [ 45 46 ] . Also, proteasomes are needed for regulating centrosome segregation [ 38 47 ] , kinetochore structure [ 39 ] , and sister chromatid cohesion and separation [ 48 ] . When rat oocytes were exposed to the proteasome inhibitor MG132, proteasomes translocated to the meiotic spindle, MPF activity was sustained, and oocytes were arrested in MI with partially segregated chromosomes [ 42 ] .
Volpes ( volpe fox) were cunning, Orsinos ( orso bear) lumbering, Manzos ( manzo bullock) taciturn, Botolinos ( botolo snapping cur) irascible, Cagnas ( cagna bitch) surly, and Buffas ( buffa Sicilian dialect for toad) detestable.
Obviously the short-lived French conquests in the region left behind words and names; here a crazy man is foo [for Fr fou ] or, if you want to insult him, a crapaud toad, while on our little island resolutely British placenames (Grenville, Victoria) nestle beside villages like Perd-mon-Temps, La Tante, Crochu.
Any sign of restlessness, for instance, is summed up as, All of a motion like a Mulfra toad on a red hot shovel, and when shivering, it is a case of cold as a quilkin [frog] or chilled to the marra [marrow].
Count your blessings, however meagre, as, a toad is a diamond in a duck's eye.