What's the difference between carmine and pigment?

Carmine


Definition:

  • (n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
  • (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
  • (n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
  • (2) The frequency and weight of stools significantly decreased, the stools became more solid, and carmine transit time was prolonged during loperamide therapy.
  • (3) The antibody can be demonstrated in the microprecipitation test on live larvae in vitro and in the agglutination test with carmine-adsorbed antigen.
  • (4) Among the latter, there were sensitizations, to our knowledge hitherto unreported in the literature: to indigo carmine (2 cases), monensin sodium (1 case), thiabendazole (1 case), methylchlorpindol (1 case) and amprolium hydrochloride (1 case).
  • (5) This selective method could be valuable in microscopic and cytochemical studies on chromatin because the carmine fluorescence is stable and preparations can be dehydrated and mounted permanently without changes in the fluorescence pattern.
  • (6) The PAS-reaction, the staining with Best's carmine and the reaction with alizarinblue S for the proof of glycogen were positive in all blood vessels investigated.
  • (7) The vacuolated liver sections were qualitatively more intense than the dense sections when stained with Best's carmine.
  • (8) The relative standard deviation for repeated determinations of carminic acid in a commercial strawberry-flavored yogurt was 3.0%.
  • (9) Oral administration of carminic acid resulted in a biphasic excretion of this dye in the feces, due to coprophagy.
  • (10) Bagasse supplements accelerated gastrointestinal transit when measured by the carmine marker technique.
  • (11) Recoveries of carminic acid added to a natural-flavored yogurt ranged from 87.2 to 95.3% with a mean of 90.2%.
  • (12) Paraffin sections of placentas of control and of fetuses with FAS were stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Best's carmine and PAS with and without diastase (saliva).
  • (13) Blood samples were taken on each of the last 3 d and faeces collected (using carmine markers) for the last 6 d of each diet period.
  • (14) The following staining reactions were applied (paraffin embedding or frozen sections): haemalum-eosin stain; PAS-reaction; Sudan III; Sudan black; Best's carmine (for details on the techniques see ROMEIS 1968).
  • (15) Transit time was determined by carmine and did not differ between groups.
  • (16) In the course of isolation anthocyanins, carmine, betanin, caramel and riboflavin are separated from synthetic dyes, as well as from one another, with the exception of first two, which are separated from one another by chromatography or distinguished by oxidation.
  • (17) Intestinal transit times in children less than 3 years old with gastroenteritis were measured using carmine suspension and radioopaque pellets.
  • (18) The results indicate that cochineal lacks carcinogenicity in mice and are consistent with those of in vitro short-term assays of cochineal and of carminic acid, an active principle of cochineal.
  • (19) When injected with indigo carmine, the vessels localized by the hydrogen-induced current impulses filled the entire anterior spinal artery from the low thoracic to the sacral region, whereas injection of the other vessels did not show filling.
  • (20) Andreotti was also accused of having ordered the murder of a rightwing journalist, Carmine Pecorelli, in 1979.

Pigment


Definition:

  • (n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
  • (n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
  • (n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (2) Differences between the albino vs pigmented strains were observed following injections of saline.
  • (3) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
  • (4) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
  • (5) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
  • (6) The evolution and function of multiple forms of a given photosynthetic pigment in vivo are discussed.
  • (7) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
  • (8) Both categories frequently showed pellagrous pigmentation and mucocutaneous signs of B-vitamin deficiency.
  • (9) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
  • (10) A red pigment produced by the actinomycete strain B 4358 was identified as butyl-meta-cycloheptylprodiginine (4) by 1H, 13C and correlation via long range coupling NMR spectra.
  • (11) Two unusual types of oral mucosal pigmentation are reported.
  • (12) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
  • (13) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
  • (14) It is hypothesized that deposition of bilirubin in tissues takes place as an ongoing event, the deposited pigment being eliminated by bilirubin oxidase in healthy infants.
  • (15) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
  • (16) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
  • (17) Although mucocutaneous pigmentation was not present in two of the three patients, the features of intestinal polyposis are consistent with those of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
  • (18) Cytochromes b, c(555), possibly c(1), cytochrome oxidase, a carbon monoxide-binding pigment, and flavoproteins were detectable in the spectra of both intact cells and mitochondria.
  • (19) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
  • (20) The total number of neuronal cell bodies was 25% lower in AIDS (P less than 0.01) than in 12 age-matched controls, although the volume density of neuronal melanin did not differ from that of controls because the percentage of pigmented cell bodies was higher (P less than 0.01) and the cell bodies were more fully packed with melanin in AIDS.