(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.
Sagebrush
Definition:
(n.) A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monument Valley is named for the dozens of free-standing sandstone buttes and monoliths that tower above the sweeping sagebrush landscape.
(2) Positive patch test reactions were 2+ for dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), false ragweed (Ambrosia acanthicarpa), giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida), short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia), sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), wild feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus), yarrow (Achillea millifolium), and tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and 1+ for Dahlia species and English ivy (Hedera helix).
(3) The disputes can be seen as part of the so-called sagebrush rebellion, a decades-old conflict in which there was a push to turn land under control of the federal government to the states.
(4) Inhibitory effects of oils from the eight plant species may be placed in four groups: (i) essential oils from vinegar weed (Trichostema lanceoletum) and California bay (Umbellularia californica) inhibited rumen microbial activity most; (ii) lesser inhibition was exhibited by rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) and California mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana) oils, followed by (iii) blue-gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) oils; and (iv) oils from Douglas fir (Psuedotsuga menziesii) and Jerusalem oak (chenopodium botrys) resulted in the least inhibition, when 0.3 ml of each oil was used.
(5) Twice each day, we ambled along well-trodden trails through the sand, up and down rocky ridges, passing cacti and sagebrush.
(6) The teachers of those lessons linger in the sagebrush and granite, in the kivas of the ancient Native Americans, and behind walls of snow and ice for those who look for them.
(7) Root parameters for sagebrush and Great Basin wildrye were least growing over a biobarrier mixture of gravel and cobble.
(8) Flying from anywhere in the world into Las Vegas is a culture shock, but to then quit it for the scrub and sagebrush of the Mojave desert is an equally dramatic assault on the senses.
(9) Further reading This Washington Post article has useful background on the sagebrush rebellion, including the role of Ronald Reagan.
(10) At this time of year, the high desert plateau that occupies the northern part of the county’s 10,000 square miles is filled to the horizon with snow-clotted sagebrush.
(11) David Damore, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas political science professor, told the Guardian: "This goes back to the days of the Sagebrush Rebellion, where essentially the idea is that 'this is our land, not the federal government's land.’" "The federal government owns 85% of Nevada," Damore added.
(12) The root masses of big sagebrush, Great Basin wild rye, Russian thistle, streambank wheatgrass, and crested wheatgrass were determined at 20 cm depth increments from plants grown in high clay content soils in cylindrical containers.
(13) Extracts of white oak, timothy, Bermuda, Russian thistle, short ragweed, sagebrush, Alternaria, and cat dander were examined in allergic patients and in nonatopic subjects with no personal or family history of asthma, rhinitis, or eczema.
(14) Using takeover tactics many liken to the 1970s Sagebrush Rebellion , the two dozen blue-collar occupiers are thumbing their collective noses against what they consider the overreaching tactics of the federal government’s management of thousands of square miles of land across the American west.
(15) Artemisia tridentata (basin sagebrush) is discussed as a medicinal plant in the southwestern United States of America.
(16) He's part of a small group of extreme libertarians, corporate profiteers, armed militia members and livestock ranchers who have tried before to seize control of public lands, who nurture an intense hatred of the federal government, and who have a long history of violent eruptions going back to the failed “ sagebrush rebellions ” of the 20th century and before.
(17) In the late 1970s, ranchers of the so-called “Sagebrush Rebellion” demanded land rights to areas run by federal agencies.
(18) Wild populations of the sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) are reported as paratenic hosts for third stage larvae of Ascarops sp.
(19) Sagebrush and English Plantain were also abundant during the weed season.
(20) Threats of violence are de rigeur and actual violence too common in the modern sagebrush rebellion: pipe bombs planted on wilderness trails , sent to environmental groups , exploded in US Forest Service and BLM offices.