(n.) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
(n.) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intradermal skin tests with bayberry pollen extract were more predictive of provocation challenge results than plate radioimmunoassay (positive predictive value of 80%, 95% CI 62% to 98%; versus 73%, 95% CI 47% to 99%).
(2) Sera from 30 subjects who underwent 31 challenges were assayed for bayberry pollen extract-specific IgE by plate radioimmunoassay.
(3) Four of seven (57%) study subjects with extrinsic asthma and positive skin tests to bayberry pollen extract and none of the 15 (0%) control subjects with negative skin tests had positive bronchial challenges (p = 0.001).
(4) A potent non-peptide ET receptor antagonist, myriceron caffeoyl ester (50-235), was isolated from the bayberry, Myrica cerifera.
(5) Sixteen Frankia strains were isolated from Myrica pennsylvanica (bayberry) root nodules collected at diverse sites in New Jersey.
(6) Consumption of diets containing bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), golden seal (Hydrastis canadensis), mistletoe (Viscum album) and tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) significantly reduced the hyperphagia and polydipsia associated with streptozotocin diabetes, but bayberry (Cinnamomum tamala), meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), senna (Cassia occidentalis) and the herbal mixture did not alter these parameters.
(7) Bayberry pollen extract is allergenic, and the Southern bayberry tree fulfills Thommen's criteria defining aeroallergen-producing plants.
(8) Bayberry pollen extract was obtained commercially and used to perform 25 nasal and 22 bronchial challenges on 45 subjects.
(9) Southern bayberry, distributed throughout the southeastern United States, is the source of the fifth most common windborne tree pollen in Tampa, Fla. Fifteen percent of 400 consecutive subjects evaluated for allergic respiratory symptoms in the Tampa Bay area had positive skin tests to bayberry pollen extract.
(10) The filter exclusion method was used to isolate Frankia strains from Myrica pennsylvanica (bayberry) root nodules collected at diverse sites in New Jersey.
(11) Twelve of 13 (92%) study subjects with allergic rhinitis and positive skin tests to bayberry pollen extract and two of 12 (17%) control subjects with negative skin tests had positive nasal challenges (p = 0.0001).
(12) A major tree pollen season (Dec. through May) consisted of oak, pine, Australian pine, bald cypress, cedar, bayberry and mulberry.
Myrica
Definition:
(n.) A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that the brown algal species Cystosira myrica, Sargassum asperifolium, Sargassum neglectum, and Sargassum subrepandum always contain the highest concentrations of lead and zinc, but these algae are less contaminated than brown algae from industrial European seas.
(2) This study reports that the methanol extracts of Caryophylli Flos, Angelicae Dahuricae Radix, Polygoni Avicularis Herba, Myricae Cortex and Forsythiae Fructus protect the hepatic injury by CC14 and these protective effects are connected with the inhibitory effects of the lipid peroxidation in hepatic microsomes.
(3) Among them methanol extracts of Caryophylli Flos, Angelicae Dahuricae Radix, Polygoni Avicularis Herba, Myricae Cortex and Forsythiae Fructus were newly found to have protective effects against acute hepatic injury induced by CCl4.
(4) A potent non-peptide ET receptor antagonist, myriceron caffeoyl ester (50-235), was isolated from the bayberry, Myrica cerifera.
(5) Sixteen Frankia strains were isolated from Myrica pennsylvanica (bayberry) root nodules collected at diverse sites in New Jersey.
(6) There was a good correlation between the results, since there was not one single sample which could induce nodules in Myrica which did not do the same in alder.
(7) Myrica gale effect on microorganisms in the carbon cycle is studied in this work by comparing soil samples collected under the canopy in summer and control samples.
(8) The effects of 5 crude drugs (Myricae Cortex, Polygoni Avicularis Herba, Hyperici Erecti Herba, Forsythiae Fructus, Desmodii Herba) on subacute and chronic hepatic injuries induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) or alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate (ANIT) were investigated in rats.
(9) The nodules formed on M. gale plants grown in soils collected from alder habitats showed acetylene-reducing activity at a level comparable to that described in the literature, in the case of other Myrica species.
(10) Soils from A. glutinosa communities particularly from places where Myrica was absent, were checked for their infectivity towards M. gale.
(11) The methanol extract from the bark of Myrica rubra SIEB.
(12) The filter exclusion method was used to isolate Frankia strains from Myrica pennsylvanica (bayberry) root nodules collected at diverse sites in New Jersey.
(13) In addition, Scutellariae Radix, Caryophylli Flos and Myricae Cortex were shown to have inhibitory effects of non-enzymatic lipid peroxidation in rat hepatic mitochondria.
(14) One hundred soil samples from sites in North, Centre and West of Spain were examined for their capacity to induce nodules in alder (Alnus glutinosa) and bog myrtle (Myrica gale).