(n.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antiinflammatory effects of GLA administration observed in animal models, and the apparent clinical improvement experienced by 6 or 7 rheumatoid arthritis patients given borage seed oil in this open, uncontrolled study may be due in part to reduced generation of arachidonic acid oxygenation products.
(2) Diets were enriched (15% fat) with borage seed oil (23% GLA) or safflower oil (less than 1% GLA).
(3) Desaturase activity was influenced more by the black currant than by the borage diet, especially at 6 and 9 months of age.
(4) Low levels of the monoenes 22:1 and 24:1 found in some brands may indicate contamination of EPO with borage oil.
(5) Our results demonstrated that the animals supplemented with dietary fish oil had elevated levels of 20:5(n-3) in epidermal phospholipids and elevated epidermal levels of 15-hydroxyeicosapentaenoic acid (15-HEPE) [the 15-lipoxygenase product of 20:5(n-3)] compared with guinea pigs fed olive oil or borage oil.
(6) Weanling GPs were initially fed diets supplemented with olive oil (less than 0.1% EPA; less than 0.1% GLA) for 2 weeks, followed by a crossover by two sets of animals to diets supplemented with fish oil (19% EPA) or borage oil (25% GLA).
(7) The substrate for the delta 6-desaturase in borage was, therefore, the linoleate in the complex microsomal lipid phosphatidylcholine, rather than, as in animals, the acyl-CoA.
(8) For example, the leukotriene inhibition potentials (LIP) of both fish oil and borage oil were greatly enhanced when compared to controls.
(9) After diets, the PNE and vasoconstrictor responses to -40 mmHg LBNP, as well as the reflex vasodilation on its cessation, were significantly augmented by borage oil.
(10) The analysis revealed that five out of seven patients treated with borage oil showed a favourable effect with regard to the skin changes assessed by the ADASI-score.
(11) To test the hypothesis of a local modulatory effect of these PUFA in the epidermis, the basal diet of normal guinea pigs was supplemented with ethyl esters of either fish oil [rich in eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)] or borage oil [rich in gamma-linolenic acid (GLA)].
(12) Analysis of epidermal neutral lipids and phospholipids in borage oil-fed animals showed a marked increase in GLA and its elongase product, dihomogammalinolenic acid (DGLA).
(13) These data indicate that dietary borage oil has a blood pressure lowering effect in hypertensive and normotensive rats.
(14) To determine whether or not dietary GLA exerts any modulatory role on cutaneous eicosanoids, guinea pigs were fed either a control diet containing safflower oil (less than 0.5% GLA) or borage oil, a GLA-rich diet containing 25% GLA.
(15) To study their effects on cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress in man, 30 men were randomly assigned to one of three groups and given 28 day supplements of borage oil (containing 18:3n-6), fish oil (containing 20:5n-3), or olive oil (placebo).
(16) In a study on the effect of borage oil on atopic dermatitis, the value of this scoring system and of the statistical single-case analytic methods could be demonstrated.
(17) Similarly, animals supplemented with esters of borage oil preferentially incorporated dihomogammalinolenic acid (DGLA), the epidermal elongase product of GLA, into the epidermal phospholipids, which also was accompanied by epidermal accumulation of 15-hydroxyeicosatrienoic acid (15-HETrE).
(18) Interestingly, despite the lack of DGLA in SPH, this phospholipid exhibited a marked enrichment in nervonic acid (NA, 24:1n-9) from 16.2 to 24.7 mol% upon borage oil consumption.
(19) Mice were fed diets containing corn oil, borage oil or evening primrose oil or a mixture of borage and fish oils.
(20) Diets were supplemented with several dosages of oils containing either gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) (borage oil), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (sardine oil), or a combination of the two in a dose-response protocol.
Oval
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
(a.) Broadly elliptical.
(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(2) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on 18 January 1983.
(4) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(5) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(6) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
(7) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
(8) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
(9) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(10) This model opened possibilities to study the filamentous form of P. ovale in vitro.
(11) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
(12) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
(13) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(14) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
(15) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
(16) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
(17) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
(18) Magnetic resonance revealed oval corresponding hypointense foci both on T1-and T2-weighted images.
(19) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
(20) Peripheral blood specimen showed abnormal lymphoid cells with an oval to cleaved nucleus, rather condensed chromatin, occasional prominent nucleolus, and basophilic cytoplasms with vacuoles which seems to be a T-cell counterpart of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with mixed cell types.