(n.) The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mouthwash study employed a 0.2% chlorhexidine gluconate solution, a 0.5% astringent solution and a control mouthwash.
(2) According to preference, a special astringent cream may be a suitable alternative to cotton inner gloves.
(3) There also appeared to be much greater scope for the use of astringents and effective preventative measures in addition to aural toilet.
(4) Other less astringent compounds (gallic and tartaric acids) had only slight effects on Isc.
(5) Electrophysiological recordings were made here from the whole chorda tympani nerve in gerbil to understand the interactive effect of astringent-tasting molecules with a broad spectrum of tastants including mono- and divalent salts, bitter compounds, acids, and sweeteners.
(6) However, aluminum chloride showed pronounced astringency and was the only compound to bring about rapid resolution of the signs and symptoms of athlete's foot in open-ended clinical trials.
(7) Their interactions with proteins, polysaccharides, and the alkaloid caffeine are discussed at the molecular level, and these fundamental properties are related to the quality of astringency that polyphenols possess.
(8) Facial moisturizers are part of the cosmetic category known as skin care products, which also includes other facial products such as astringents, toners, soaps, and bath products.
(9) A striking contrast was presented by France, which would not budge from an astringent and classic definition of what comprised the secular: a strict separation of religion from the state, or, for that matter, from the public domain.
(10) Equally effective astringent gingival deflection agents such as alum, aluminum sulfate, and aluminum chloride exert no systemic effects.
(11) Clays employed historically in the consumption of astringent acorns plus seven edible clays from Africa were examined in relation to the functional significance of human geophagy.
(12) The results indicated that washing the grain prior to cooking increased the consistency of the product and eliminated the astringency of the grain.
(13) The more astringent sensibility belongs, of course, to Dahl: one born of boarding-school bullying, extreme heroism in the second world war as a fighter ace and the death of a beloved child (to whom he dedicated The BFG).
(14) This study analyzes the therapeutic properties of the herbs they produced (such as diuretic, stimulant, narcotic, emetic, astringent), using a classification scheme based on the location of the botanical substance's effect vis-à-vis body boundaries and surfaces.
(15) and the aromatic, astringent 'pan' (leaves of Piper betel L.) chewed with it.
(16) The astringency of the drug was mainly due to proanthocyanidins with degrees of polymerization from 5-10, and these were also the astringent compounds of rhatany tea and tincture.
(17) While not appearing to act by the release of adrenal hormones, tannins may produce effects in a non-specific manner by their astringent properties on cell membranes thus affecting cell functions.
(18) Tasing panel work on these fractions shows that bitterness is predominantly associated with oligomeric procyanidins and astringency with polymeric procyanidins.
(19) The inhibition of some of these pathways may contribute to the astringent taste sensation.
(20) Yogurts with more than 5.6% protein were too firm and had an astringent flavor.
Stringency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being stringent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, nick-translated [32-P]-pCS75, which is a pUC9 derivative containing a PstI insert with L and S subunit genes (for RuBisCO) from A. nidulans, hybridizes at very high stringency with restriction fragments from chromosomal DNA of untransformed and transformed cells as does the 32P-labeled PstI fragment itself.
(2) However, the tetM probe had a much lower sensitivity and required a lower stringency of hybridization.
(3) No homology was noted between the DNA of 10 tetracycline-resistant isolates of campylobacter and the streptococcal tetL, tetM, or tetN determinants when tested under conditions of high stringency.
(4) A procedure is provided to adjust the level of the 95th-percentile standard so that the stringency of the present standard is preserved.
(5) Eight of the lesions contained HPV DNA sequences, and in six of these the sequences were related to HPV 16 as deduced from low-stringency nucleic acid hybridization followed by low- and high-stringency washes.
(6) However, under conditions of low stringency, the DUG S and M RNA probes hybridised to the respective S and M segments of Ganjam (GAN) virus (another member of the NSD serogroup).
(7) Possibly due to the stringency of requirements for culturing such plasmacytomas, a highly advantageous combination of components was developed.
(8) When 3 to 5 stringency conditions were assayed on 4 frozen samples, similar results were obtained.
(9) At reduced stringency, a probe to the 3' HVR detects a new family of multiallelic loci that will be of value in the study of human genetics.
(10) This is consistent with the concept that stringency and inhibition of protein synthesis affect the rate of utilization rather than the synthesis of these ribonucleotide residues.
(11) To identify additional molecular forms of the exchanger, rat brain, heart, kidney, stomach, and spleen cDNA libraries were screened for their presence using an NHE-1 cDNA probe under low stringency hybridization conditions.
(12) By hybridization to a globin probe at reduced stringency all but four clones were found to contain small globin related inserts; two of these hybridized to hamster repetitive sequences as shown by Southern blot analysis.
(13) Structural homology to the P-450b gene was confirmed by comparative restriction mapping and high stringency hybridization of gene IV fragments to probes comprising the entire cDNA for P-450b.
(14) With this method, clear results were obtained under both normal and low stringency conditions, allowing hybridization between molecules sharing 80-85% and 60-65% identity, respectively.
(15) Hybridization of a bovine ARF 2 cDNA under low stringency with mammalian poly(A)+ RNA resulted in multiple bands that were subsequently assigned to the known ARF genes using ARF-specific oligonucleotide probes.
(16) However, consensus restriction maps of the two subgroups are largely dissimilar and, except at low stringencies, cross reassociation is readily detected only at restriction fragments from a particular conserved internal segment.
(17) Here we describe the isolation and characterization of a cDNA coding for the MR, from a rat hippocampus cDNA library, by low stringency hybridization to radiolabeled human glucocorticoid receptor cDNA.
(18) At higher stringency, human papillomaviruses cross-hybridized with each other reflecting species-specific similarities.
(19) irradiation before hybridization with mixed viral DNA probes under both low- and high-stringency conditions.
(20) The method is based on the priming of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by an oligonucleotide complementary to the DNA sequence containing the mutation of interest, which anneals only to the perfectly matched sequence under high stringency conditions.