(n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following a brief historical introduction, current production of commercially important alliums is described and their botanical origins and interrelationships are explained.
(2) A population of meristematic root cells of Allium sativum L. is previously synchronized thanks to Hydroxyurea.
(3) Considering that oxygen toxicity and the related free radical attack are involved in many pathophysiological conditions, and that Allium sativum (ASP) has been used therapeutically for many of them since antiquity, we examined the intervention of ASP and alliin in free radical processes.
(4) Acyl-CoA elongase has been partially purified from leek (Allium porrum L.) epidermal cells.
(5) The eleven cases of sensitization to Allium sativum L (garlic) corresponded to women whose primary or secondary profession was that of a housewife.
(6) Garlic (Allium sativum) has been used medicinally for centuries and still is included in the traditional medicine of most cultures.
(7) It has been reported that diallyl sulfide (DS) and diallyl disulfide (DDS), major volatile compounds in garlic (Allium sativum), exert anticarcinogenic activity in several organs in rodents.
(8) We have approached the study of the ability of different types of lesions produced by DNA-damaging agents to develop sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) by analyzing SCE levels observed in Allium cepa L cells with BrdU-substituted DNA and exposed to visible light (VL), an irradiation which produces uracil residues in DNA after debromination of bromouracil and enhances SCE levels but only above a certain dose.
(9) The activity of microsomal NADPH-cytochrome-P-450-reductase and NADH-cytochrome-b5-reductase are inhibited after the addition of an aqueous extract of a pharmaceutical preparation of garlic (Allium sativum, L.) to buffer-suspended microsomes.
(10) The orientation of Giemsa C-bands has been studied in mitotic and interphase cells of Allium cepa.
(11) In addition to there being variation of flavor between different alliums, there are also considerable changes that occur as a result of cooking and processing.
(12) Dietary analyses revealed a significant protective effect of consumption of allium vegetables, oranges and tangerines, with a 50% reduced risk of nasal cancer among individuals in the highest intake group of these foods.
(13) The microtubules in the hairs show net axial orientations, but in Allium and Urtica helical microtubule patterns are also present.
(14) Samples of solid waste from a chloralkali plant were bioassayed employing the Allium micronucleus (MNC) assay.
(15) When garlic (Allium sativum) was administered to rat per os simultaneously with cadmium, methylmercury and phenylmercury to detect the protective effect against the heavy metal poisoning, accumulation of heavy metals in liver, kidneys, bone and testes were decreased, and histopathological damages and the inhibition of serum alkaline phosphatase activities by heavy metals were reduced.
(16) Lower risks were found among people who had a higher intake of fresh vegetables, including garlic and other Allium vegetables which contain constituents that can inhibit carcinogenesis by N-nitrosamines and other substances in experimental animals.
(17) The microtubules of root hairs of Raphanus sativus, Lepidium sativum, Equisetum hyemale, Limnobium stoloniferum, Ceratopteris thalictroides, Allium sativum and Urtica dioica were investigated using immunofluorescence and electron microscopy.
(18) The genomes of seven plant species belonging to the genus Allium and exhibiting a threefold variation in their nuclear DNA content were analyzed by studying their reassociation kinetics, equilibrium centrifugation behavior in neutral CsCl gradients, and melting properties.
(19) Pretreatment with Allium sativum alone, or in combination with Crataegus, resulted in protective effects on isoprenaline-induced damage of heart, liver, and pancreas.
(20) Numerous vesicles were observed among the microtubules of the "preprophase" band in prophase cells from root tips of Allium cepa.
Pallium
Definition:
(n.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
(n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
(n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.
(n.) The mantle of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the extensive projections of the medial pallium to the dorsal thalamus and pretectum in anurans may be primitive features of the medial pallium retained in anurans, or uniquely derived features in anurans.
(2) Noradrenergic varicose axons innervate the reticular formation, motor nuclei, and interpeduncular nucleus of the brain stem, the hypothalamus and habenular nuclei, various parts of the area dorsalis telencephali (forebrain pallium), and the olfactory bulbs.
(3) In the telencephalon, immunoreactive perikarya were detected in the dorsal, medial, and lateral pallium; the medial septal nucleus; the dorsal and ventral striatum; and the amygdala.
(4) This suggests that bulbopetal neurons in the frog pallium belong to neuronal populations which differ in their neurotransmitter specificities.
(5) A set of model predictions is presented, concerning mechanisms of habituation and cellular organization of the medial pallium.
(6) Lower densities of LENK+ and SP+ perikarya and fibers occur in the medial pallium and the pars centralis of the dorsal pallium.
(7) Some cells in all telencephalic centers, except the corpus striatum and the pars lateralis of the amygdala, project to the ipsilateral medial pallium.
(8) Moderate ANF-binding was found in the bulbus olfactorius, pallium, septum, striatum, lateral forebrain bundle, nucleus infundibularis, hypophyseal pars distalis and tectum.
(9) Two exceptions to the similarity of pattern were in a caudal part of the pallium and in the mesencephalic tegmental area.
(10) During their courses they become intermingled with fibers related to the primordial septum, the primordial hippocampus, the primordial dorsal pallium and the primordial piriform areas.
(11) In a twin pregnancy of a 25-year-old woman one fetus was a normal male, while the other had hydrocephalus (6 mm thick pallium in the 23rd week) and a neural-tube defect in the thoracic-lumbar region.
(12) In frogs, on the base of the axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase, the connections ascending to the primordial hippocamp were shown from the ipsi- and contralateral pyriform pallium, contralateral primordial hippocamp, ispilateral amygdala and nucleus accumbens, as well as from rostral parts of the postero-central thalamic nucleus (bilaterally).
(13) No evidence was found to suggest the existence of either a dopamine fiber projection to cortex comparable to that of mammalian neocortex or the presence of an epinephrine pathway to turtle cortex equivalent to the epinephrine-containing fibers in the pallium of amphibians.
(14) In all the stages the labelled cells are also found in the periventricular layers of the controlateral optic tectum, in the dorsal pallium and in the striatum.
(15) The ascending connections to the pallium originate for the major part from nucleus dorsolateralis anterior of the dorsal thalamus.
(16) The dorsomedial part of the lepidosirenid telencephalon corresponds to the septum in the most plesiomorphic living lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, but it differs considerably from the dorsomedial telencephalon (medial pallium) in amphibians.
(17) Following a quasi-natural vibrating sphere stimulus, neural responses were recorded in the medullary medial octavolateralis nucleus (MON), the dorsal (DMN) and anterior (AN) nucleus of the mesencephalic nuclear complex, the diencephalic lateral tuberal nucleus (LTN), and a telencephalic area which may correspond to the medial pallium (Figs.
(18) Immunoreactive fibers of varying density were observed in all major subdivisions of the brain with the densest accumulations of fibers occurring in the dorsal pallium, the lateral and medial forebrain bundles, the amygdala, the periventricular hypothalamus, the superficial region of the caudolateral brainstem, and in a tract that appeared to be homologous to the tractus solitarius.
(19) In Neoceratodus, AchE staining is pronounced in the septal area, but absent in the pallium.
(20) (3) In the 67 children who did not suffer CNS infection but did require a shunt, intelligence was related to sensory level found at birth and to thickness of the pallium measured within four weeks of birth.