What's the difference between crocin and gardenia?
Crocin
Definition:
(n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.
(n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the crocin dyes possessed chemopreventive effects on the early acute hepatic damage induced by AFB1 or DMN.
(2) Systems with and without the polyene glycoside crocin were compared.
(3) Feeding experiments demonstrated that crocin dyes at 0.1% in the diet could suppress partially the chronic hepatic damage induced by multiple dosages of AFB1 or DMN, but at a higher concentration of 1% crocin dye failed to do so because of their host toxicity.
(4) The monophenol p-hydroxyacetophenone stimulates oxygen uptake, cysteine oxidation and crocin bleaching, whereas its concentration does not change.
(5) The system with crocin reacted with higher velocity with oxygen than did the control experiment without polyene.
(6) Crocin dyes are extracted from the fruits of Gardenia jasminoides and consist of carotenoids and geniposides as active principles.
(7) 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).
(8) Some of the commercially available carminic acid and crocin were also toxic.
(9) The effects of dietary administration of crocin dyes on the hepatic damage induced by aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) in rats were investigated.
(10) As a competitor, the carotenoid crocin was used, which was found to be bleached very efficiently by SO3.- (k = 1.0 x 10(9) dm3mol-1 s-1).
(11) Furthermore, the model carotenoid crocin is bleached and thiobarbituric-acid-reactive material (malondialdehyde) is produced from linolenic acid.
(12) The amino acid cysteine is oxidized by horseradish peroxidase, and the water-soluble carotenoid crocin is bleached by cooxidation.
(13) In the presence of crocin about 40% more linoleic acid hydroperoxides was formed than without the polyene but the linoleic acid break-down was equal in both experiments.
(14) The protective mechanisms of crocin dyes may be attributed to their carotenoids which are converted metabolically to retinoids in rats.
(15) In the presence of crocin the ratio of the isomers changed to 64:11:11:14.
(16) The antioxidant effects of manganese and other transition metals were studied as the inhibition of microsomal lipid peroxidation and crocin bleaching by peroxyl radicals.
Gardenia
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants, some species of which produce beautiful and fragrant flowers; Cape jasmine; -- so called in honor of Dr. Alexander Garden.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a discussion concerning the facets of antifertility drugs linked with male or female fertility regulation, several selected examples are presented, which include yuehchukene (isolated from Murraya paniculata), pseudolarix acids A and B (from Pseudolarix kaempferi), mardekoside A (from Mardenia koi), gardenic acid and gardenodic acid A (from Gardenia jasminoides) as early pregnancy terminating agent, for fertility regulation in females; whereas gossypol (from cottonseed oil) and total glycosides of Tripterygium wilfordii (GTW) as antispermatogenic agent for fertility regulation in males.
(2) Fructus Gardeniae extract manifested no hepatotoxic effects on rats, as shown by alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, and lactate dehydrogenase studies.
(3) The gardenia and poinsettia are named after New World physician-botanists Alexander Garden and Joel Poinsett.
(4) An improved extraction method was used to obtain hypotensive principles from seeds of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (Rubiaceae).
(5) In the successive extraction technique, only the aqueous extract of Gardenia vogelii fruit pulp was proved to be active against the two snail species tested.
(6) It was shown that the hypotensive and bradycardiac properties of Gardenia extract were entirely abolished in a tropinized and vagotomized rats, but only partially attenuated in carotid sinus denervated rats, and that low cervical spinal transection in rats did not inhibit the hypotensive responses.
(7) Fructus Gardeniae extract failed to activate the UDP-glucuronyltransferase system; whereas in hyperbilirubinemic state the enzyme was activated, presumably by substrate induction.
(8) This article discusses the effects of Fructus Gardeniae extract on hepatic function.
(9) Wakan-Yakus (traditional herbal drugs) such as Akyoh (Glutinum), Gaiyoh (Artemisiae folium), Sanshishi (Gardeniae fructus), Kizutsu (Aurantii fructus), and Taisoh (Zizyphi fructus) were studied in relation to their effects on blood coagulation-fibrinolysis.
(10) The inhibitory effects of OGT, Coptidis rhizoma and Phellodendri cortex against the PD reduction disappeared in the presence of NEM or diethyldithiocarbamate (DDC), whereas NEM or DDC had little or no effect with Gardeniae fructus and Scutellariae radix.
(11) "Shen Yan Ling" (SYL) is a compound herbal preparation consisting of 16 ingredients: Herba Ecliptae, Radix Rhemanniae, Rhizoma Cibotii, Radix Angelica Sinensis, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Rhizoma Diosocoreae, Poria, Radix Sanguisorbae, Radix Rubiae, Herba Portulacae, Fructus Gardeniae, Herba Cirsii Japonici, Herba Cephalanoploris, etc.
(12) In the present study, we describe that the hot water extract from Gardenia fruit (GFE) stimulates the proliferation of cultured endothelial cells from bovine aorta.
(13) Crocin dyes are extracted from the fruits of Gardenia jasminoides and consist of carotenoids and geniposides as active principles.
(14) Fructus Gardeniae extract increased the activity of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase, which would result in an increase in availability of UDP-glucuronic acid intracellularly, BSP clearance study showed an unexpected impairment of hepatic uptake of the dye after extract treatment.
(15) Intravenous injection of Gardeniae Fructus extract in rats significantly lowered the systemic arterial pressure which was related to a decreased cardiac output with decreased stroke volume.
(16) These results suggest that the gastric mucosal protection of Coptidis rhizoma and Phellodendri cortex may be ascribed to the reinforcement of mucosal barrier resistance through endogenous sulfhydryl compounds and DDC-sensitive compounds, but those of Gardeniae fructus and Scutellariae radix may be independent of NEM- or DDC-sensitive compounds.
(17) We previously reported that Gardenia fruit extract had a stimulatory effect on fibrolysis in vitro.
(18) On a steep, gardenia-scented street in the north-eastern Athens suburb of Gerakas, in one corner of a patch of bare ground, stands a small caravan.
(19) The potency of the effectiveness on aPTT was in the order of Gaiyoh (Artemisiae folium) greater than Kizutsu (Aurantii fructus) greater than Sanshishi (Gardeniae fructus) greater than Taisoh (Zizyphi fructus) greater than Akyoh (Glutinum).
(20) We investigated the effect of a hot water extract from Gardenia fruit (Gardenia jasminoides Ellis) (GFE), which has a stimulatory effect on endothelial cell proliferation, on the proliferation of A10 cells, an established cell line of vascular smooth muscle cell from murine aorta in a culture system.