(n.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.
(n.) A color inclining to purple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Layers fed diets containing amaranth required significantly less feed to produce a dozen eggs or a gram of egg than those fed the control diet.
(2) It is proposed that bromocresol green, and probably also amaranth, rapidly equilibrates between the hepatic and biliary compartments as a result of reabsorption from the biliary tree and that the rate-limiting factor in the biliary excretion of these dyes is the removal of dye from the biliary tree by bulk flow.
(3) The present research was carried out for the purpose of collecting part of the germ plasm of grain amaranth in Guatemala, as well as to evaluate it in terms of yield, chemical composition and nutritive value.
(4) Male rats were fed both popped amaranths and roasted amaranth.
(5) Hepatic microsomal azoreductase activity with amaranth (3-hydroxy-4[(4-sulfo-1-naphthalenyl)azo]-2,7-naphthalenedisulfonic acid trisodium salt) as a substrate is proportional to the levels of microsomal cytochrome P-450 from control or phenobarbital-pretreated rats and mice or cytochrome P-448 from 3-methylchol-anthrene-pretreated animals.
(6) Results also revealed that a steam treatment improves the nutritive quality of the amaranth meal.
(7) 6 and amaranth showed ether-extractable mutagenic activity only at much higher doses than those at which activity was seen with most dithionite-reduced samples of FD&C Red No.
(8) Amaranth, safrole, phenacetin and nicotine suppressed the DTH response, and suppressed the serum interferon titers induced by virus infection.
(9) In cotyledons of 6-day-old amaranth seedlings, the large subunit (LSU) and the small subunit (SSU) polypeptides of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase are not synthesized in the absence of light.
(10) Administration of taurocholate did not abolish the depressing effect of estrone; however, phenobarbital given in combination with estrone decreased or prevented the effects of estrone on the biliary excretion rate of bromcresol green and amaranth.
(11) Add the amaranth, stir for a minute, then add the stock, 200ml water, the bouquet garni, a third of a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper.
(12) 6 large portobello mushrooms 70ml olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper 200g cherry tomatoes 10g unsalted butter 30g pine nuts 2 tsp za’atar 1 large onion, peeled and finely diced 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed 200g amaranth 500ml vegetable stock Bouquet garni made with 10g tarragon sprigs, 4 strips lemon skin, 5g rosemary sprigs and 3 bay leaves 30g parmesan, finely grated Heat the oven to its highest setting (around 240-250C).
(13) The room temperature had influence over the following dyes: amaranth, F.D.
(14) The nuclei of immotile sperm were stained pink by amaranth.
(15) Immature male rats were fed a purified, low-fiber diet containing massive doses of sodium cyclamate or amaranth (FD and C Red No.
(16) The data indicate that inactivation of NADPH-cytochrome P-450(c) reductase inhibits sulfonazo III and amaranth reduction, whereas inactivation of cytochrome P-450 inhibits only amaranth reduction.
(17) Forty-five harvests corresponding to the two predominating domestic species of amaranth in Mexico were studied.
(18) In terms of weight gain, feed intake, feed efficiency, carcass weight and serum proteins, the results indicated that amaranth leaf meal can efficiently replace alfalfa leaf meal up to 15% of the total weight of the diet.
(19) The mechanism of the azo reduction of sulfonazo III and amaranth by the rat hepatic monooxygenase system was studied.
(20) The amaranth vegetable cultivar Zimbabwe PI 482049 promoted weight gain and feed utilization equal to that obtained with alfalfa as the sole forage for growing lambs.
Amaranthine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to amaranth.
(a.) Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying.
(a.) Of a purplish color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serological studies suggest that amaranthin does not appear to be present in the stems or leaves of the A. caudatus plant, nor were there any indications for the presence of cross-reactive material.
(2) The stoichiometry of carbohydrate binding was determined to be one T-disaccharide-binding site per amaranthin subunit (Ka = 3.6 X 10(5) M-1).
(3) In the present study we have analyzed by light and electron microscopy the distribution and subcellular localization of Amaranthin binding sites in normal, dysplastic and neoplastic colonic epithelium.
(4) In this study, neuraminidase (sialidase) and 6 different lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), Limax flavus agglutinin (LFA), Sambucus nigra agglutinin (SNA), Maackia amurensis agglutinin (MAA), peanut agglutinin (PNA), and Amaranthin, were used to histochemically characterize the carbohydrate structure of glycoconjugate in the murine eustachian tube pharyngeal orifice.
(5) A comparison between the carbohydrate-binding specificities of amaranthin and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) agglutinin is discussed.
(6) Application of the galactose oxidase-Schiff sequence abolished amaranthin (and anti-T antibody) binding to the T antigen but not to its cryptic form, and therefore permitted their differentiation in tissue sections.
(7) The lectin amaranthin, purified from the seeds of Amaranthus caudatus, has been shown to react specifically with the Gal beta 1,3GalNAc-alpha and the NeuAc alpha 2,3Gal beta 1,3GalNAc-alpha sequence which represent the T antigen and the cryptic T antigen, respectively.
(8) Therefore, amaranthin can be used for histochemical detection of the T antigen and the cryptic T antigen, and facilitates discrimination between them.
(9) Investigation of transitional mucosa, adenocarcinomas of different degrees of differentiation and mucinous carcinomas as well as adenomas with different degrees of dysplasia all revealed positive Amaranthin staining.
(10) Histochemical evidence was obtained indicating that amaranthin is a more specific anti-T reagent than peanut lectin.
(11) Amaranthin staining was inhibited by pre-incubation of lectin-gold complexes with 10 mM Gal beta 1,3GalNAc-alpha-O-benzyl (synthetic T antigen) or 10 mM Gal beta 1,3GalNAc-alpha-O-aminophenylethyl-human serum albumin (T antigen neoglycoprotein), asialoglycophorin, asialofetuin, and asialomucin.
(12) This Amaranthin staining was resistant to GO-Schiff treatment.
(13) Amaranthin is the lectin present in the seeds of Amaranthus caudatus, which specifically binds the T-disaccharide (Gal beta 1,3GalNAc alpha-O-).
(14) The lectin Amaranthin reacts with Gal beta 1,3 GalNAc-alpha (the T antigen) and NeuAc alpha 2,3 Gal beta 1,3 GalNAc-alpha (the cryptic T antigen).
(15) NeuAc alpha 2,3Gal beta 1,3GalNAc alpha-O-(CH2)8CO2CH3 was as potent an inhibitor as Gal beta 1,3GalNAc alpha-O-(CH2)8CO2-CH3, and amaranthin was precipitated by NeuAc alpha 2,3Gal beta 1,3GalNAc alpha-O-BSA (where BSA is bovine serum albumin), indicating that the amaranthin-combining site tolerates substitutions at the C'-3 hydroxyl group.
(16) A lectin (Amaranthin) present in the seeds of Amaranthus caudatus has been isolated by fractionation on DEAE-cellulose followed by affinity chromatography on Synsorb-T beads (Gal beta 1,3GalNAc alpha-O-R-Synsorb).
(17) Equilibrium sedimentation (Mr = 62,900) and low-angle laser light scattering (Mr = 61,400) methods have been used to unambiguously establish the native multimeric structure of amaranthin as a homodimer.
(18) We report here the development of labeling techniques that apply amaranthin to stain paraffin sections from rat fetuses.
(19) Studies with a homobifunctional cross-linking reagent and amaranthin further support the existence of a lectin homodimer.
(20) A native Mr = 54,000 was determined by gel filtration suggesting that amaranthin exists as a homodimer.