What's the difference between crocetin and crocus?
Crocetin
Definition:
(n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A significant protective effect of crocetin on AFB1 hepatotoxicity was shown, as manifested by reduced effects on the activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (P less than 0.01-0.001).
(2) Most significant inhibition was found at the time of 9 h after crocetin pretreatment.
(3) The increased PO2 in the arterial blood seen subsequently with crocetin is attributed to increased diffusion through plasma.
(4) PO2, PCO2, pH, and hematocrit did not differ in rats that received either saline or crocetin.
(5) Crocetin as compared with saline treatment resulted in a right shift of the PtO2 frequency distribution and a significant decrease in the frequency of occurrence of low PtO2 values.
(6) Blood flow rates remained constant and were unaffected by crocetin.
(7) In the present study the effect of crocetin on tissue oxygenation was examined in the cerebral cortex of rats subjected to hemorrhage.
(8) The carotenoid compound crocetin has been shown to increase oxygen diffusivity in vitro.
(9) The effects of crocetin pretreatment on both hepatic aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-DNA binding and AFB1 hepatotoxicity in rats has been examined.
(10) Six of 12 animals then received a bolus of crocetin (2 U in 0.1 ml saline); the remaining animals received saline (0.1 ml i.v.)
(11) The inhibitory effects of 4 retinoids, namely, retinal (Ral), retinoic acid (RA), retinyl acetate (RAc), and retinyl palmitate (RP), and 3 carotenoid including beta-carotene (BCT), lycopene (LCP), and crocetin (CCT) on the growth and DNA synthesis of rat C-6 glioma cells were studied.
(12) The sulfite radical anion (SO.3-) was found to react rapidly with the flavonoid quercetin (k = 2.5 x 10(8) dm3mol-1s-1) and the carotenoids crocin (k = 1.0 x 10(9) dm3mol-1s-1) and crocetin (k = 1.5 x 10(9) dm3mol-1s-1).
(13) From these results, we suggest that the protective effect of crocetin on AFB1 hepatotoxicity in rats might be due to the hepatic tissues' defense mechanisms that elevated the cytosol GSH and the activities of GST and GSH-Px.
(14) Thirteen compounds were negative in the rat tracheal epithelial transformation inhibition assay: crocetin, difluoromethylornithine, ellagic acid, esculetin, enoxalone, ibuprofen, levamisole, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylate, piroxicam, sodium butyrate, D-alpha-tocopherol acetate, and polyethylene glycol 400.
(15) Crocetin treatment also resulted in a decrease in AFB1-DNA adduct formation in vitro, while no effect of crocetin on the formation of AFB1-8,9-oxide in vitro system was detected as measured by the Trisdiol method.
(16) This suggested that the crocetin possessed chemopreventive effects on the early acute hepatic damage induced by AFB1.
(17) The results suggest that the carotenoid compound crocetin improves tissue oxygenation in the cerebral cortex of hemorrhaged rats.
(18) Crocetin is a carotenoid isolated from the seeds of Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides).
(19) From our previous results and present data, we suggest that the suppression of crocetin on AFB1 hepatotoxicity in the rats might be due to the defense mechanisms of hepatic tissues that elevated the GSH S-transferase activity and decreased the formation of hepatic AFB1-DNA adducts.
(20) It has been shown that crocetin increases the diffusion speed of oxygen through plasma, and should provide a net increase in oxygen at the level of the capillary endothelial cell.
Crocus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
(n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(2) The hay was heavily contaminated by autumn crocus (colchicum autumnale)--about 1.48% of total mass.
(3) When the imaging circumstances are such that a high signal level is available, CROCUS imaging can be an effective means of reducing imaging time.
(4) Antitumor activity of saffron (Crocus sativus) extract a commonly used spice in India was studied against intraperitoneally transplanted sarcoma-180 (S-180), Ehrlich ascites Carcinoma (EAC) and Dalton's lymphoma ascites (DLA) tumours in mice.
(5) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(6) It’s a far cry from the streets of San Diego, but for Artur, the early morning trip to Moscow’s Crocus Centre is a pilgrimage like no other.
(7) Bulbs of Crocus sativus variety Cartwrightianus were found to contain both a platelet aggregation inducer and inhibitor.
(8) A concentrated extract of saffron was prepared from the flowers of Crocus sativis.
(9) A circular hike around these seemingly barren peaks reveals unexpected treasures: twisted oak trees, carpets of red and blue anemones in the spring, crocuses and cyclamen, even field mushrooms in the autumn, an ancient temple dedicated to Demeter and an abandoned monastery with beautiful Byzantine frescoes.
(10) Trump did collect a a share of the $14m paid by investors including Aras Agalarov, a Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire property developer and close Putin associate, for bringing Miss Universe to Agalarov’s 7,500-seat Crocus City Hall.
(11) The conjugate reconstruction by off-center under-sampling (CROCUS) method samples only every other phase-encoded line in raw data space and uses the conjugate symmetry of the data to reconstruct a real image.
(12) In September we walked through a carpet of purple crocuses and exuberant thistles.
(13) Extract of saffron (Crocus sativis) has previously been shown to inhibit colony formation and cellular DNA and RNA synthesis by HeLa cells in vitro.
(14) The CROCUS method incorporates a correction technique, similar to that used in other half-Fourier methods, which uses low-resolution phase-shift information obtained from a few extra lines of phase-encoded data.