(n.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.
Example Sentences:
(1) When neuronal uptake of noradrenaline was inhibited by desmethylimipramine or cacaine, no reduction in responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation was observed with propranolol.
Cacao
Definition:
(n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new Salmonella serotype classified in the Kauffman sub-genus I (Kauffman 1963) has been isolated in Canada from a stock of cacao beans from Nigeria.
(2) The diets contained cholesterol, cacao butter, olive oil, and these in combination.
(3) Fifteen years on, cattle graze where coca once grew by the side of the road and cacao is more easily spotted than coca.
(4) It is worth noting that only three strikers have scored goals in this World Cup and only one from open play: Gyan (penalty) and Klose, Cacao.
(5) These fats could be classified according to their atherogenicity as follows, in decreasing order: butter, olive oil, coconut oil, cacao butter, and corn oil.
(6) Cacao butter in the diet decreased the relative proportion of protein in hepatic microsomes.
(7) In addition, the percentage molar nucleotide composition of the genome of the PD strain of Kennedya yellow mosaic virus and the percentage molar amino acid composition of the coat proteins of cacao yellow mosaic, Kennedya yellow mosaic and turnip yellow mosaic (Cardamine strain) viruses were estimated.
(9) The influence of particle size and percentage concentration of chlorphenamine maleate on the physical standards of its suppositories as well as the release of the drug from oily base (cacao butter), water-soluble base (carbowax) and emulsifying base (Witepsol) has been investigated.
(11) Cacao swollen shoot disease has been known to be caused by a small non-enveloped bacilliform virus for more than 25 years.
(12) Rats were fed cholesterol, cacao butter, or olive oil diets to determine the effect of dietary lipids on the rate of drug biotransformation in the liver and duodenum.
(13) The high prevalence rates of infection in D. marsupialis in the human settlement of Cacao and the finding in this locality of domestic breeding of Rhodnius pictipes lead to suspect the occurrence of a peridomestic cycle in this village.
(14) Among the test samples, only an aqueous extract of cacao (Theobroma cacao) bean husk strongly inhibited the bacterial collagenase.
(15) TheJameskitchen via GuardianWitness Serves 2 470ml milk 2-4 pieces of Mexican (if possible) dark chocolate, (eg (Mayordomo or Ibarra) or cacao, grated Dark brown sugar, to taste Ground cinnamon, to taste A dash of Cointreau or Grand Marnier To serve (optional) Fresh cream, lightly whipped A pinch of chilli powder 1 cinnamon stick 1 Heat the milk in a small saucepan, add the chocolate, sugar (to taste) and cinnamon.
(16) A group of 103 patients suspected of contact allergy was tested with the European standard series, wood tars and spices: paprika, cinnamon, laurel, celery seed, nutmeg, curry, black pepper, cloves, white pepper, coriander, cacao and garlic.
(17) After the in vitro activation of membrane-bound uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase by trypsin, the increase in measurable activity was 10 fold in the group fed the standard diet, 6 fold in group fed cholesterol, 4 fold in group fed cacao butter, and 3 fold in group fed olive oil.
(18) The phlebotomine fauna is highly varied in Três Braços, an endemic area of american cutaneous leishmaniasis, situated in the cacao growing region in the southeast of Bahia State, Brazil.
(19) Male rabbits were fed for six months diets comprising cholesterol (0.1%) and either butter alone (10%) or butter (5%) plus cacao butter, coconut oil, olive oil, or corn oil (4.5%).
(20) A sodium hydroxide extract from cacao husk inhibited the cytopathic effect of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) against HTLV-1-transformed T-cell lines MT-2 and MT-4.