(n.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ethanolic extracts of the aerial parts of Artemisia abyssinica and A. inculta were subjected to acute toxicity observations in mice for 24 h and chronic toxicity evaluation for 3 months.
(2) The major aeroallergens were Artemisia, Moraceae and Euophoribiacea, and the spores of Aspergillus, Penicillinum, Cephalosporium and Helminthosporium.
(3) Pollen of Artemisia annua is considered to be one of the most important allergens in autumnal hay fever in China, just as ragweed is in North America.
(4) Leonurine (1) is the uterotonic principle of Leonurus artemisia.
(5) Artemisinin (Qinghaosu), a poorly soluble sesquiterpene lactone derived from the plant Artemisia annua Linn., and a number of more soluble, semi-synthetic derivatives are rapidly-acting blood schizontocides against Plasmodium berghei and P. yoelii nigeriensis.
(6) When the gel of SDS-PAGE with Artemisia pollen extracts was sliced into 11 allergenic groups (AG) and the protein of each AG was obtained by the gel elution method, the wormwool-RAST inhibition test showed that the AG 10 demonstrated to be the most potent, and the AG 7 was the next.
(7) In the present study, scoparone isolated from Artemisia Capillaris Flos has been investigated to determine its pharmacological properties on the heart.
(8) A search in ancient Chinese medicinal literature and modern phytochemical references indicates that the therapeutic value of Leonurus artemisia (I-mu ts'ao, the Chinese motherwort) might reside in a uterotonic principle present in leaves.
(9) Like in the report on air-borne pollens in Peking, made by C. T. Chang as well as in our report on air-borne pollens survey in 9 districts in North China, Artemisia (sage) is found to be the chief component of the Summer-Autumn curve and the major offender in Summer-Autumn seasons in the etiology of upper respiratory allergic diseases.
(10) In order to clarify the allergenicity of non-pollen containing components of the plant, Artemisia annua leaves and stems were collected and extracted before pollination time.
(11) Eighty percent of Artemisia sensitive pollinic patients were also sensitive to the pollen of other plants from the family of compositae.
(12) Emodin and scoparone, the active principles isolated from Polygonum multiflorum and Artemisia scoparia, respectively, both exhibit vasorelaxant and immunosuppressive effects.
(13) The traditional Chinese drug Heshi should be the fruit of Artemisia cina, rather than that of Carpesium abrotanoides.
(14) The activities of six other species of Tanacetum, as well as of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Zingiber officinale (ginger), and two commercial drugs for migraine prophylaxis, verapamil hydrochloride and propranolol hydrochloride, were also assessed.
(15) It could be identified 43 antigens of mugwort pollen (Artemisia vulgaris), 31 migrating anodically and 12 cathodically, by means of crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE).
(16) Artemisia herba alba has been widely used in Iraqi folk medicine for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
(17) The important allergenic component Artemisia VI b that constitutes 29% of total protein in the extract was purified to homogeneity.
(18) Artemisinin (Qinghaosu) is a potent antimalarial sesquiterpene lactone isolated from the Chinese herb Artemisia annua.
(19) Artemisia annua L. contains artemisinin, an endoperoxide sesquiterpene lactone, mainly in its leaves and inflorescences.
(20) An allergenic protein from Artemisia vulgaris pollen has been purified to homogeneity.
Mugwort
Definition:
(n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples were taken on 2 rainless mornings at the peak mugwort flowering time.
(2) The sera that did not detect the 15 kD bands in celery failed to react with both the 15 kD mugwort component and the 14 and 16 kD birch components.
(3) RAST investigations on the sera of 27 patients suffering from celery allergy showed specific IgE to mugwort and birch in 15 cases; sensitization to mugwort or birch alone only occurred in 5 and 7 cases, respectively.
(4) Thus 98% of atopic patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis were detected by an allergen panel consisting of timothy, birch and mugwort.
(5) The degree of skin sensitivity to five common allergens (grass, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, mugwort, birch, and Parietaria) was determined by the threshold dilution technique in all the skin test reactors of a random sample of 295 schoolchildren (142 male and 153 female subjects, age range 11 to 14 years), and the frequency distribution of responders at each concentration was analyzed by probit analysis.
(6) The QSPT performed on the same 29 allergic patients established that 17.4 micrograms lyophilised reference mugwort pollen extract per ml had a biological potency of 1 HEP (histamine equivalent by prick test).
(7) Specific serum IgE to spices (determined in 41 patients with positive RAST to celery) up to class 3 were seen especially in patients with celery-mugwort or celery-birch-mugwort association, and concerned various botanical families.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) A crude and a partly purified extract of mugwort pollen were characterized with particular emphasis on the glycoprotein allergen Ag7.
(10) In most sera IgE against various spices was present; all 12 sera contained IgE against mugwort-pollen extract.
(11) The patient suffers from hay fever and bronchial asthma caused by a variety of pollens (grass, olive, and mugwort).
(12) It is concluded that direct RAST titration allergen assay is not adequate for all kinds of allergen preparations and that the Phadebas RAST for mugwort is less sensitive than the RAST for other allergens.
(13) An associated allergy to several spices is quite common, and therefore the term "celery-mugwort-spice-syndrome" has been proposed.
(14) The allergenic potency of different birch, Timothy and mugwort pollen extracts was determined by means of a direct RAST titration allergen assay.
(15) It could be identified 43 antigens of mugwort pollen (Artemisia vulgaris), 31 migrating anodically and 12 cathodically, by means of crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE).
(16) Simultaneous conjunctival and nasal provcation tests, a total of 174 test pairs, were carried out in fifty patients with allergic rhinitis, using serially diluted antigen solutions of birch, Timothy grass and mugwort pollen, as well as cat and dog dander.
(17) By contrast, in the celery-mugwort sensitive patients (n = 6) the celery RASTs with heated celery extracts remained clearly positive and high RAST values to stick celery could be found.
(18) The analysis of allergens and RAST inhibition tests showed us a close relationship of allergens of Chrysanthemum pollens and pollens of mugwort.
(19) In RAST-inhibition experiments with three different sera, a cross-reactivity between mugwort pollen and coriander could be demonstrated.
(20) Measurement of radioactivities in airborne particles, rain water, drinking water, milk, and mugwort are carried out by gamma-ray spectrometry (pure Ge detector; ORTEC GMX-23195).