(1) Other redox compounds without antiscorbutic activity and an antioxidant were ineffective.
(2) There is a certain presumptive evidence for believing than AA has functions other than the simple prevention of classical scurvy; whether these extra-antiscorbutic functions are attributable to AA itself, or to one or more of its metabolites, is not known.
(3) D-Erythorbic acid is an epimer of L-ascorbic acid, but lacks antiscorbutic activity.
(4) Two isomers of LAA, D-isoascorbic acid and D-ascorbic acid, which have weaker antiscorbutic activity than that of LAA, also produced the L-CFC growth-enhancing effect, but to a lesser degree than that of LAA.
(5) Ascorbic acid 2-O-alpha-glucoside (AA-2G) has been reported to have antiscorbutic activity in guinea pigs.
(6) The antiscorbutic effect of dehydro-L-ascorbic acid (DAsA) was investigated in vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs.
(7) These data indicate that DAsA has considerably less antiscorbutic activity than AsA in vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs.
(8) Isomers of L-ascorbic acid with less antiscorbutic activity also promoted plasmacytoma colony formation, but less effectively.
(9) Possible reasons for the lack of antiscorbutic activity of ascorbic acid-2-sulphate in guinea pigs is discussed.
(10) In the year 1795, a British East Indiaman bound for China had a sick sailor on board who was diagnosed as having testis cancer by the ship's surgeon, who then treated him with an antiscorbutic diet, because scurvy was rampant among the sailors.
(11) The rationale for investigating D-isoascorbic acid, an isomer of L-ascorbic acid which has limited antiscorbutic activity, is discussed.
(12) Given the many extra-antiscorbutic functions of the vitamin, the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) should not just prevent deficiency disease but should aim at providing sufficient amounts for all vitamin C-dependent functions to operate at full capacity.
(13) Examination of the physiological activity of flavonoids in relation to their antiscorbutic properties shows that some of these compounds, the flavan-3-ols, have a particular nutritional impact and consequently should be distinguished from the rest of the flavonoids and polyphenols.
(14) Tissue saturation with AA would appear to provide a good insurance against defects in these extra-antiscorbutic areas.
Cress
Definition:
(n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The capacity of new selected sorts of rape and winter cress oils to decrease a high cholesterol level in the blood and liver was studied in "cholesterol" rats.
(2) In Martinique water-cress beds constituted the last transmission sites for schistosomiasis.
(3) The uptake of 14C from various 14C-labeled organic chemicals from different chemical classes by barley and cress seedlings from soil was studied for 7 days in a closed aerated laboratory apparatus.
(4) The effect of washing mustard and cress, cucumber and the different layers of lettuce leaves was examined.
(5) It is suggested that rape oil ("Agat", "Kubanskoye") and winter cress oil ("Sibiryachka") initiate the lipid transport in the blood and tissues thus leading to the reduction of the cholesterol level in the blood and liver tissue in "cholesterol" rats.
(6) Experimental studies on 16 water-cress pools with cases of human fasciolasis in Limousin were undertaken.
(7) The intermediate host snail, Biomphalaria glabrata, was considered in the past as a common species in the different habitats of the island, but during the last decade it has been found only in water-cress beds.
(8) Several of these water-cress cultures contained mixed populations of B. glabrata and B. straminea.
(9) The danger of eating water cress is emphasized for this momentary delight may lead to a chronic debilitating illness.
(10) The effect of nonpurified condensate obtained during prolonged cultivation of batata in a sealed chamber upon batata cuttings and seedlings of garden cress, radish and Chinese cabbage was studied.
(11) 6-HKA was found to be devoid of antibacterial and antifungal activity, and was inactive in the Avena-coleoptile and cress-seed-germination tests.
(12) You’ve been seeing him on the TV for years and years and years,” Cress said, adding that the frontrunner stands for “jobs, money, [not] getting ripped off by other countries”.
(13) Cress, who owns a fireworks business in New Mexico and imports his stock from China, was unperturbed by Trump’s promise of tariffs on imports from the country.
(14) Normal human plasma contained no antibodies to structural proteins of tobacco mosaic, cucumber mosaic, and rock-cress mosaic viruses.
(15) This greater appearance is probably related to the dietary habits in those areas, since the consumption of water cress is undoubtedly the principal source of contamination and is entirely responsible for the rest of the epidemiology of the diseases in humans.
(16) The two remaining water-cress beds have dried up and were abandoned.
(17) However, the water-cress was that which presented the highest frequencies of enteroparasites.
(18) After extraction from the cells, the compounds were purified with column and thin layer layer chromatography on silica gel, bioassayed for inhibition of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) radicle elongation, and identified with ms, ir, nmr, and co-chromatography with authentic standards.
(19) It was given as sodium tellurate, sodium tellurite, metallic colloid and intrinsically bound in cress.
(20) Thai marinated monk fish with sweet potato fondant, pak choi, thai red curry sauce and coriander cress.