(n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serves 6 (makes 12 parcels) 2 tbsp rapeseed oil 1 large onion, finely diced 1 carrot, grated 1 tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp tomato paste 1 fresh bay leaf 1 tin chopped tomatoes 1 head Savoy cabbage, 12 leaves separated 500g beef mince 500g pork mince 160g rice, parboiled and drained 40g barberries (optional) To serve 100ml sour cream ½ small bunch dill, finely chopped 1 Make the sauce first.
(2) 3 Mix the minces, parboiled rice, barberries, seasoning and the remaining diced onion.
(3) Add some dried barberries to lift the flavour a little, but don't worry too much if you have trouble finding them.
Berberine
Definition:
(n.) An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(2) When present in the serosal medium at a concentration of 2 mM, however, berberine reduced PD and Isc and abolished residual ion flux (bicarbonate secretion) but had no significant affect on basal net Na and Cl transepithelial transport.
(3) The interaction of berberine chloride with natural and synthetic DNAs of differing base composition and sequences was followed by various spectroscopic and viscometric studies.
(4) The concentrations of half-inhibition amounted to 50 muM for berberine sulphate and tetrahydropalmatine and 0.55 mM for alpinigenine.
(5) This paper reports a reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography method to determine berberine hydrochloride in Coptis chinensis Franch and in the traditional Chinese medicine containing Coptis chinensis Franch.
(6) Berberine, a quaternary alkaloid, and several of its derivatives were tested for efficacy against Leishmania donovani and Leishmania braziliensis panamensis in golden hamsters.
(7) The changes in plasma drug level were found parallel to hemodynamic effects of berberine.
(8) In C. glabrata, compared with C. albicans and C. tropicalis, berberine hydrochloride greatly inhibited the growth of fungi.
(9) The alkaloids tested included compounds from the isoquinoline, benzylisoquinoline, bisbenzylisoquinoline, monoterpene isoquinoline, berberine, morphinane, hasubanan, benzo[c]phenanthridine and aporphine groups.
(10) After 8-12 weeks, however, many subserosal mast cells became positive for berberine sulfate and safranin.
(11) Intestinal MC stained with the same dyes as oral MC except for 0.005% toluidine blue, berberine sulfate, and safranin.
(12) The protective effects of berberine and phentolamine against anoxia and reoxygenation damage in isolated rat hearts have been investigated.
(13) Substantially higher concentrations of berberines are needed for the inhibition of the oxidation of succinate.
(14) On isolated swine coronary arterial strips, berberine shifted norepinephrine cumulative dose-response curve rightward parallelly without decreasing the maximal response.
(15) Berberine shifted the thermal strand separation profile of DNA to higher temperatures.
(16) Quenching by oxygen occurs with a rate constant of 6 x 10(9) M-1s-1 and time-resolved emission studies indicate that sanguinarine produces a significant amount of singlet oxygen (phi delta = 0.16) as does the isoquinoline alkaloid, berberine (phi delta = 0.25).
(17) These results suggest that although berberine and phentolamine have some beneficial effects on myocardial reoxygenation injury, they may not abolish the injury.
(18) Berberine sulfate, an isoquinoline alkaloid isolated from Hydrastis canadensis L., inhibited the effects of the tumor promoters 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate and teleocidin, such as increased 32Pi-incorporation into phospholipids of cell membrane and hexose transport.
(19) Staining with berberine sulfate was prevented by treatment of the cells with heparinase but not chondroitinase ABC, suggesting that the adoptively transferred mast cell population had acquired the ability to synthesize and store heparin.
(20) Berberine and coptisine inhibited platelet aggregation in both in vitro and in vivo assays, and berberine inhibited the decline of renal blood flow.