What's the difference between anemone and pulsatilla?
Anemone
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.
(n.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.
Example Sentences:
(1) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(2) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
(3) Veratridine and the sea anemone toxin on one hand as well as veratridine and the scorpion toxin on the other hand are synergistic in their action to stabilize an open and highly permeable form of the sodium channel.
(4) Sea anemones produce a series of toxic polypeptides and proteins with molecular weights in the range 3000-5000 that act by binding to specific receptor sites on the voltage-gated sodium channel of excitable tissue.
(5) The hemolytic toxin (HT), isolated from the sea anemone Stoichactis helianthus, has been conjugated to a MAb directed against carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), by means of an artificial disulphide bridge.
(6) Tetrodotoxin prevented it when given before, and inhibited it when given after initiation by sea anemone toxin II.
(7) A toxin from the Bermuda anemone Condylactis gigantea causes the early transient conductance change of crayfish giant axon membranes to persist without affecting the shape of its turning-on.
(8) Morphological observations on the V-79-379 A cells after treatment with equinatoxin II (EqT II), isolated from the sea anemone Actina equina L., and fetal calf serum (FCS) treated toxin were examined by transmission electron microscopy.
(9) Toxin I from Anemonia sulcata, a major component of the sea anemone venom, consists of 46 amino acid residues which are linked by three disulfide bridges.
(10) wt 229.5; melting point 285-290 degrees C) is a novel purine isolated and purified from the sea-anemone Bunodosoma caissarum.
(11) 5500 (53 amino acids), isolated from the sea anemone, Anthopleura xanthogrammica (Brandt), elicited a potent positive inotropic effect but without an accompanying chronotropic effect on the isolated cardiac muscles of rat, rabbit, guinea pig and cat.
(12) (iv) Conversely, the sea anemone toxin can only associate with the membrane when the Na+ channel is open for Na+; it does not bind when the channel is previously blocked by tetrodotoxin.
(13) Glucose flux through the shunt was constant at approximately 5 pmol.mg-1.hr-1 in fed anemones at 5 degrees C and 15 degrees C and in fasted anemones at 15 degrees C, indicating apparently near-perfect thermal acclimation of the absolute flux of glucose through the shunt in fed, but not in fasted, anemones.
(14) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(15) Application of low concentrations (10(-8) M) of Antho-RIamide I inhibited spontaneous contractions in several muscle groups of sea anemones, whereas Antho-RIamide II was inactive.
(16) In general, the properties of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from the sea anemone and oyster muscles are similar: the K(m) values for phosphoenolpyruvate are low (0.10 and 0.13mm); the enzymes require Mn(2+) in addition to Mg(2+) for activity; and ITP inhibits the enzymes and the inhibition is relieved by alanine.
(17) Biochemical and biological properties of 30 cytolytic polypeptide toxins isolated from 18 species of sea anemones (Actiniaria) are presented and classified into three groups according to their molecular mass, isoelectric points and the molecular mechanism of action.
(18) Blotted wet weight of anemones under high and low irradiance declined by 50% over eight days of starvation, but there was no significant difference in the rate of weight loss by anemones in the two treatments.
(19) With the aid of 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the three-dimensional structure in aqueous solution was determined for ATX Ia, which is a 46 residue polypeptide neurotoxin of the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata.
(20) DTX had similar potency but lower efficacy in this respect than sea anemone toxin II (ATX II).
Pulsatilla
Definition:
(n.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method for the determination of ranunculin in Pulsatilla chinensis and synthetic ranunculin by reversed phase HPLC using betamethasone as internal standard is described.
(2) Protoanemonin, the lactone of gamma-hydroxy-vinylacrylic acid, isolated from Pulsatilla alpina has in vitro activity against fungi.