(n.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete amino acid sequence of cytochrome c from the Dipterous Ceratitis capitata (serie Acalypterae) has been determined by combining automatic and manual methods of sequence analysis.
(2) Ceratitis capitata brain appears to have octopamine receptors as unique aminergic receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase.
(3) Drosophila melanogaster and Ceratitis capitata are insensitive to mannose and have excess of mannosephosphate isomerase over hexokinase.
(4) Alcohol dehydrogenase null mutants have been induced with X rays in Ceratitis capitata, for use in a genetic sexing system.
(5) Kinetics of incorporation of labelled fatty acids into the sn-positions points to a non-random distribution with respect to the major saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in triacylglycerols of larvae of Ceratitis capitata.
(6) Cuticle proteins of an insect pest, the Medfly Ceratitis capitata, were resolved in polyacrylamide gels and partially characterized.
(7) This phenomenon was particularly related to the subgroup melanogaster and in the dipteron Ceratitis capitata.
(8) Dual monitoring by UV absorption and fluorescence produced by cerate oxidation provides both sensitive and wide-ranging detection capability.
(9) DNA sequences that are enriched or specific to the genome of the male medfly, Ceratitis capitata, have been isolated using a differential hybridization approach.
(10) DNA fingerprinting has been used to detect genetic variation in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.
(11) Serum protein-bound carbohydrates, L-fucose, sialic acid, D-galactose, and D-mannose, were measured as potential biologic markers in patients with breast cancer with the use of high-resolution anion exchange separation in combination with a sensitive cerate oxidimetric fluorescence detector system.
(12) During the intervening 10 million years, the Drosophila lineage lost the second intron and evolved distinct codon-preferences: the G + C use in the third coding positions is increased by 69% in Drosophila relative to Chymomyza or Ceratitis.
(13) The coding sequence has the same length as in Drosophila species and in Ceratitis capitata.
(14) The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), the melon fly, Dacus cucurbitae Coquillett, and the oriental fruit fly, D. dorsalis Hendel, three Hawaiian tephritids of economic importance, were exposed to traps each containing one of 232 ethyl ether extracts of air-dried botanicals.
(15) The autosomal recessive allele v wing (v) in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), produces flies that when reared at 30 degrees C have stubby wings.
(16) The nucleotide or amino acid distances support a phylogeny in which Ceratitis first branches off the common stem, then Chymomyza splits before the divergence of the two major Drosophila subgenera.
(17) A concerted effort is under way to analyze, at the genetic, biochemical, and molecular level, the Adh gene system in the medfly Ceratitis capitata, an important agricultural pest.
(18) Membrane preparations from immature stages of the fruit fly Ceratitis capitata catalyze the transfer of mannose from GDP-[14C]mannose into lipid-linked oligosaccharides.
(19) Electrophoretic study of haemolymphatic proteins in Ceratitis capitata has allowed to establish a proteic sexual dimorphism in this insect.
(20) The methylating activity of (methyl-14C)-S-adenosylmethionine by microsomes from different stages of development of the insect Ceratitis capitata was studied in a series of in vitro experiments.
Lard
Definition:
(n.) Bacon; the flesh of swine.
(n.) The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.
(n.) To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.
(n.) To fatten; to enrich.
(n.) To smear with lard or fat.
(n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
(v. i.) To grow fat.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(2) Differences in the rate of hydrolysis appeared to be related to the structure and the triacylglycerols from lard and human milk, both of which have palmitic acid esterified in the sn-2 position, were hydrolysed most rapidly.
(3) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(4) The liver weight, liver total lipids and cholesterol concentrations in rats fed the lard-cholesterol diet increased more than in the control rats, but the addition of tea catechins to the lard-cholesterol diet decreased those parameters.
(5) Whole body sterol balance, hepatic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase activity, hepatic low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor levels and net tissue cholesterol concentrations were determined in guinea pigs fed either a corn oil- or lard-based purified diet for 6-7 weeks.
(6) The accuracy of the method was assessed in vitro with phantoms consisting of ox muscle, lard, and a mixture of both.
(7) Hepatic enzyme activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and adipose lipoprotein lipase were lower in rats fed the 30% lard diet than in those fed a nonpurified diet.
(8) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
(9) Lard, coconut oil, corn oil, methyl linoleate and herring oil have been analysed before and after irradiation for lipid peroxide content and fatty acid composition.
(10) The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities of aged rats fed the sardine oil diet increased significantly, whereas the activities of aged rats fed the lard diet decreased.
(11) Rations containing 25% of either regular rapeseed oil (36% erucic acid), Oro rapeseed oil (1.9% erucic acid), soybean oil or a mixture of lard and corn oil were fed to chickens, ducks and turkeys.
(12) The diet containing 5% sardine oil rich in eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids stimulated the mixed function oxidase system, but the diet containing 5% lard in which lard consisted of 10.7% linolenic acid and 1.5% linolenic acid seemed unlikely to stimulate enough the mixed function oxidase system.
(13) When LDL from animals fed the commercial diet was radiolabeled and injected into animals fed the three types of dietary fat, significant differences in LDL turnover were observed in the order CO greater than lard greater than OL, suggesting that intravascular processing and tissue uptake of the smaller LDL from animals fed the commercial diet varies depending on the dietary fat saturation fed to the recipient animals.
(14) Twenty-four 5-day-old male calves were fed twice daily milk replacers containing either 5% (low-fat) or 25% (high-fat) lard.
(15) Antioxidant activities in lard were measured by the Rancimat method.
(16) Guar gum and its hydrolysate suppressed 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase activities in the ileum to one half the control value in the experiment where dietary fat was lard.
(17) A positive correlation between production of TBA-reactive material and degradation of unsaturated fatty acids was verified for S9 fractions from the coconut oil and hydrogenated lard dietary groups.
(18) A practical application is illustrated by determination of the fatty acid distribution in lard.
(19) Rats were fed lard-enriched (17%) or corn oil-enriched (17%) diets and were compared with rats fed a low fat (4.5%) diet.
(20) A simple, rapid technique is described for the determination of 2- and 3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole (BHA), tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxytoluene (BHT), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxymethylphenol (Ionox-100), 2,4,5-trihydroxybutyrophenone (THBP), propyl gallate (PG), octyl gallate (OG), dodecyl gallate (DG), and nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) in vegetable oils, lards, and shortenings.