(n.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.
Example Sentences:
(1) ASF-II was purified to apparent homogeneity by using concanavalin A-agarose affinity chromatography, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, alumina gel adsorption, and isoelectric focussing techniques.
(2) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
(3) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(4) HSP90 did not affect the binding of other proteins to DNA-cellulose, indicating that the inhibitory effect of HSP90 was specific for the glucocorticoid receptor.
(5) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(6) Preparations of the 72 kDa, purified by immunoprecipitation or by single-stranded DNA-cellulose column chromatography and incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP, were found to contain protein kinase activity.
(7) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
(8) Cellulose acetate electrophoresis of Chironomus utahensis hemolymph demonstrated a six-band pattern for hemoglobins.
(9) The two main subunits present in rabbit skeletal tropomyosin, which have been named the alpha- and beta-chains, were separated by chromatography on CM-cellulose in urea at pH4.0.
(10) The activity has been purified 55-fold by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and phosphocellulose.
(11) Activities of protein kinases A and C in erythrocyte cytoplasmic fraction purified by CM-Sephadex and DEAE-cellulose have been measured.
(12) The modified tRNAs could be purified by chromatography on benzoylated DEAE-cellulose.
(13) Control diets consisted of 5, 10 or 15% alpha-cellulose or commercial nonpurified diet.
(14) The purification involved the following steps: (a) ammonium sulfate fractionation; (b) Sephadex G-100 chromatography; (c) DEAE-cellulose chromatography; and (d) hydroxylapatite chromatography.
(15) We are reporting the effect of a cellulose acetate 0.20 micron filter (Flow Pore D26) on preparation of platelet poor plasma (PPP) for subsequent assay of platelet specific proteins.
(16) Rat heart acid acetone powder was subjected to ion exchange chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(17) Treatment with DEAE-cellulose under the conditions described does not induce any visible degradation of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA.
(18) The procedure successively involves: rivanol precipitation, concanavalin A-Sepharose chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose.
(19) Trypanosomes were not found in 3 samples of infected cerebrospinal fluid passed through DEAE-cellulose.
(20) Cellulose phosphate greatly reduced phosphate crystals but resulted in a large increase in small oxalate crystals but without change in the incidence of aggregation of oxalate crystals.
Pharmaceutical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(3) An investigation was done on the action in vitro of two pharmaceutical preparations containing Bi, De Nol and Pepto Bismol, on the fermentative capacity of intestinal bacteria.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
(6) Variations in bioavailability and intestinal absorption are important factors in the determination of dosage and should be reduced to a minimum by improved pharmaceutical formulations.
(7) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
(8) A report of the meeting will be published tomorrow in the Pharmaceutical Journal.
(9) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
(10) Pharmaceutical services in a medical screening clinic are described.
(11) Slow release lithium was found a reliable pharmaceutical tool in both providing therapeutic results and avoiding severe side-effects.
(12) The efficacy and tolerability of a new pharmaceutical formulation of a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug, nimesulide were studied in a double blind study in comparison with flurbiprofen and diclofenac sodium, in 150 patients suffering from postsurgical pain-inflammatory symptoms.
(13) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
(14) Clarithromycin (TE-031, A-56268) is a new 14-membered ring macrolide antibiotic developed by Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TE-031 has a methoxy group at position 6 in its structure.
(15) This is especially relevant in light of the use of laboratory mammals to predict the metabolism of novel pharmaceutical agents in humans.
(16) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(17) Propylene glycol (PG) is widely used as a drug solvent in the pharmaceutical industry.
(18) The experimental drug, known as GSK2606414, is made by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.
(19) The Office for National Statistics reported a drop in output across the manufacturing sector, from pharmaceutical firm to makers of computers, electronic & optical products; and food products, beverages & tobacco goods.
(20) The second approach for a UK-listed drug company by a US rival underlined the deal-making zeal that has seized the pharmaceutical sector.