(n.) The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1 week later cotton threads impregnated with a mixture of MCA and beeswax were inserted into the uterine cervix.
(2) G. mellonella reared on its natural food, beeswax and pollen, is not suitable for a continuous rearing of L. diatraeae.
(3) Leukocytosis due to increased numbers of neutrophils occurred in all animals after single injections of histamine in beeswax, although erythrocytes and hematocrit values were unaffected in all species.
(4) Beeswax exhibited the largest r(H2O), followed in order by fully-hydrogenated soy-rapeseed oil, stearyl alcohol, acetylated monoglycerides, hexatriacontane, tristearin, and stearic acid.
(5) The agents evaluated were 1) Avitene (microfibrillar collagen; Medchem Products, Inc, Woburn, MA); 2) bone wax (beeswax with isopropyl palmitate; Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ); 3) Gelfoam (absorbable gelatin sponge; The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI); and 4) Surgicel (oxidized regenerated cellulose; Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc, Patient Care Division, New Brunswick, NJ).
(6) The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of exposure to short photoperiod (SD) and treatment with subcutaneous (s.c.) or intrahypothalamic melatonin-containing beeswax implants on reproduction in the Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus.
(7) Only a 75 per cent gastrectomy Billroth II and a 75 per cent segmental resection of the antrum and corpus plus vagotomy and pyloroplasty consistently protected against histamine in beeswax induced ulceration.
(8) In 1 of 31 rats (3%) given the beeswax-tricaprylin vehicle only, squamous metaplasia was induced.
(9) This light-induced restoration of the gonads was not prevented or retarded by the weekly implantation of either melantonin-beeswax or 5-methoxytrptophol-beeswax pellets.
(10) FSH and TSH gave no significant increases and 25 microgram NIH-LH-S18 resulted in increases only when the hormone was suspended in a sesame oil-beeswax mixture.
(11) To test this hypothesis, adult females received melatonin in beeswax or beeswax alone.
(12) With lower concentrations, where the carcinogen was dissolved in the beeswax, initial release was rapid, and most of the carcinogen was delivered within 4 weeks.
(13) Spectra of polycarbonate, beeswax, and copolymers of methyl and butyl methacrylate are presented.
(14) Continuously available melatonin, in beeswax pellets, had no effect on growth of these tumors.
(15) Insertion of cotton thread impregnated with beeswax and 20-methylcholanthrene (carcinogen) inside the canal of the uterine cervix in intact and oophorectomized mice results in the expression of dysplasia and carcinoma of the cervical epithelium.
(16) Beeswax pellets chronically releasing low doses of corticosterone significantly inhibited receptivity when implanted in the medial hypothalamus and preoptic area, with similar nonsignificant trends in the lateral septum and medial forebrain bundle, but had no effect in the dorsal hippocampus or the amygdala.
(17) Beeswax pellets containing either 500 microgram, 1 or 10 mg melatonin overcame the inhibitory effects of daily melatonin injections.
(18) These chemicals were given in various doses as suspensions in beeswax-trycaprylin and the animals were observed for 100 weeks.
(19) The effect of chronic administration of histamine on the number of cells in peripheral blood of dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs was tested by single and consecutive intramuscular injections of histamine in a beeswax-sesame oil mixture.
(20) Prenatal treatment with beeswax alone did not affect the nature of the signal transferred from mother to fetus; young gestated in 12L:12D and reared in LL developed small testes, while those gestated in 16L:8D had large testes.
Melene
Definition:
(n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; -- called also melissene, and melissylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) The raccoon was weak, ataxic and had melenic soft feces.