(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
(n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(2) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(3) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(5) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(6) Table I shows the effect of increasing concentrations of propolis in tryptose-agar (TA).
(7) In the first assay, we used a simple density separation technique to remove dense neutrophils (PMN) from suspensions of blood and of bone marrow cells prior to culture in semisolid agar.
(8) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(9) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
(10) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(11) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(12) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
(13) All isolates grew on MacConkey agar and produced catalase, oxidase, and urease.
(14) Studies on proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cells in Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) were done on a 1-month-old patient, using the soft-agar bone marrow culture technique.
(15) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(16) Four human and two nonhuman primate cell lines were studied to determine their growth characteristics in soft agar, and for invasive characteristics in a muscle organ culture assay system.
(17) The in vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a new macrolide antibiotic RU-28965, alone and in combination with rifampicin or isoniazid, was studied by the agar dilution method.
(18) In initial experiments a double layer culture system was employed in which target cells in methylcellulose medium were separated from an adherent layer of S17 stromal cells by an agar interface.
(19) Profiles obtained by use of the agar-based screens were used as the basis for evaluating the other methods.
(20) Colony forming ability in soft agar media of peritoneal tumor cells taken after completion of 5-day treatment with NKT-01 was markedly reduced to less than 3%.
Toadstool
Definition:
(n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) vanadium-containing, nitrogenases from N2-fixing bacteria, (iv) vanadium sequestering by sea squirts (ascidians), and (v) amavadine, a low molecular weight complex of V(IV) accumulated in the fly agaric and related toadstools.
(2) This is illustrated in the analysis of some novel compounds isolated from fruit bodies of toadstools and slime moulds, including infractopicrin, lascivol, retipolide A, arcyroxepin A and rubroflavin.
(3) Under the same conditions toadstool toxin was eliminated from plasma protein solution too: after 4 min of perfusion a dose of remaining material, corresponding to the LD70 of the starting material, was nontoxic in mice.
(4) The function of vanadium, while still illusive in ascidians and toadstools, begins to be understood in vanadium-enzyme interaction.
(5) Phallolysin was isolated from cold aqueous toadstool extracts by precipitation with 40% ammonium sulphate, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE cellulose, gel chromatography on Biogel P-30 and electrofocussing in Ampholine.
(6) Invasive infection with fungi of the Basidiomycota (rusts, smuts, toadstools, mushrooms, and puffballs) is extremely rare.
(7) On his return to California, he continued to use his camera as a means to express "the very substance and the quintessence of the thing itself", photographing in close-up what he saw around him: an egg-slicer, a toadstool, a cup, a gnarled tree.
(8) Unfixed cells showed angular and toadstool-shaped deformations, especially at the highest lectin concentrations, the agglutinating surfaces being flattened against each other over extended areas.
(9) Phalloidin, a toxic bicyclic peptide of rapid action from the toadstool, Amanita phalloides, gives rise to polymerization of G-actin to filamentous structures (Ph-actin) in a medium of low ionic strength.
(10) Phallolysin from the toadstool, Amanita phalloides, is a basic protein that causes direct haemolysis of red cells.
(11) RNA polymerase I is active at 50 mM (NH4)2SO4, catalyzes the synthesis of GMP-rich ribosomal-like RNA and is completely resistant to the toadstool toxin alpha-amanitin.
(12) It’s great for families: kids love the sense of adventure in this fairytale setting complete with carved toadstools and woodland animals.
(13) 8.51pm BST Kimberley's toadstool looks magical against a backdrop of Mary's banana jacket, and the judges love it too.
(14) Kimberley's cake is also made from squash, but in the shape of a toadstool house.
(15) A model having "inverted toadstool" protein units separated by spherical lipid micelles is favored, and is capable of explaining the appearance of the virus in the electron microscope and differences between normal and incomplete (von Magnus) forms of the virus.