(n.) Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of oral cornstarch supplements enabled the child to maintain normoglycemia and was associated with clinical and biochemical improvement.
(2) When the P64.8 diet was progressively diluted with cornstarch, hamsters increased their intake of this diet fraction, but protein intake nevertheless declined.
(3) A basal corn-cornstarch-soybean meal diet was formulated to contain .55% lysine.
(4) Two nurses suffered anaphylaxis to cornstarch glove powder.
(5) Solid excipients, cornstarch, and talcum powder when injected intra-arterially decreased flow, and vascular obstruction was shown angiographically.
(6) We report the successful use of raw cornstarch to maintain normoglycemia in two children with nesidioblastosis.
(7) Raw cornstarch administration consistently maintained blood glucose levels in the normal range.
(8) The sucrose-fed group had a greater 4-d excretion of tritium (urinary + fecal) than did the invert sugar- or cornstarch-fed groups (P less than 0.01).
(9) It is concluded that cornstarch, as used on surgical gloves, caused peritoneal adhesions and should therefore be removed before surgery.
(10) Either a corn-soy diet or a cornstarch-soy diet was used as the basal diet in the various studies.
(11) A range of cornstarch fermentation rates was found with suspensions from 20 human subjects.
(12) Litter size at d 28 was greater (P less than .07) for sows fed cornstarch than for sows fed tallow.
(13) The animals were fed a protein-free diet that consisted of 79.7% cornstarch, 10% sucrose, 3% Alphafloc (a source of cellulose), 3% canola oil and a vitamin-mineral premix.
(14) Cornstarch therapy was associated with maintenance of normoglycemia, increased growth velocity, and decreased serum aminotransferase concentrations in all patients.
(15) A slowly absorbed starch such as cornstarch may be an effective component in dietary management of this disorder.
(16) The two main conclusions from this study are that thyroid hormone metabolism is altered by iron deficiency regardless of food intake and that the best purified rodent diet for this type of study would contain a mixture of carbohydrate types to avoid the stimulation of thyroxine monodeiodinase by a 70% cornstarch diet.
(17) In contrast to its effects when mixed in the raw cornstarch, mixed in the cooked cornstarch diet, acarbose consumption was not accompanied by any significant fecal losses of dietary starch.
(18) Azotemic subtotally nephrectomized Sprague-Dawley rats were pair-fed a 30% casein diet supplemented with a 10% keto acid mixture (n = 10) or 10% cornstarch (n = 10) for 18 weeks.
(19) Preliminary experience with the use of sodium bicarbonate as a substitute for cornstarch derivatives to "lubricate" surgical gloves has proved promising in eliminating the hazard of starch peritonitis.
(20) Maximum plasma glucose concentrations in the sturgeon fed fructose, galactose, sucrose, lactose, dextrin, raw cornstarch or cellulose were not significantly different.
Starch
Definition:
(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
(2) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
(3) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
(4) Therefore, we changed from dextran 40 to hydroxyethyl starch in 1987 for the treatment of several otoneurological disorders.
(5) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
(6) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(7) Agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the fast and slow components obtained on starch block electrophoresis corresponded to the pre-beta and late pre-beta band respectively.
(8) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
(9) In a starch block, migration was toward the cathode at pH 8.0.
(10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(11) This study uses breath hydrogen analysis, a sensitive method for detecting the passage of starch into the colon, to determine if a potent amylase inhibitor is capable of producing carbohydrate malabsorption.
(12) Concentrates of amyloid substance derived from organs of 10 human patients representing a variety of clinical entities were characterized according to their amino acid compositions, their electrophoretic constituents mobile in urea-starch gel at pH 3 and their stability with respect to the binding of Congo red in the pH interval 9-12.5.
(13) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
(14) Production of milk and milk fat was not affected, but yields of CP and SNF were decreased when additional starch was fed to cows.
(15) The effect of two doses (3 mg and 10 mg) of the inhibitor of pancreatic alpha-amylase trestatin on the metabolism of an oral load of 75 g of starch was observed in healthy human subjects.
(16) These were analyzed for: tannins, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins (with cow, sheep, and human erythrocytes), damaged starch, available lysine, protein quality (by the NPR method), and true digestibility.
(17) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(18) We have examined under a variety of conditions the ability of potato starch phosphorylase to cause exchange of the ester and phosphoryl oxygens of alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (Glc-1-P).
(19) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(20) Several experiments examined the preference of adult female rats for starch and starch-derived polysaccnarides using short- and long-term two-choice tests.