(n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Noting reports that Dahlin had connections to Chinese human rights lawyers at the centre of a major government crackdown, the newspaper warned: “Things will get complicated if Dahlin funded illegal actions of the arrested lawyers using overseas sponsorship.” The Global Times said Chinese courts should now deal with Dahlin “in accordance with the law”.
(2) I think my treatment has been fair,” Dahlin, 35, says in the footage which was aired on state broadcaster CCTV .
(3) Dahlin also says the picture of Hodgson as a mild-mannered coach who rarely raises his voice is a myth, and players who crossed the Englishman would be told in no uncertain terms who was in charge.
(4) Caster said that while Beijing was attempting to paint Dahlin as the villain it was in fact the Chinese government that was violating the law by attempting to criminalise human rights work within its borders.
(5) Peter Dahlin, 35, a Beijing-based campaigner, was picked up by Chinese security officials earlier this month and is being detained on suspicion of endangering state security, authorities said this week.
(6) Data on tumour occurrence have been drawn from three sources: radium-case data from Rowland and Keane (33 cases), naturally-occurring cases from series by Sissons (139 cases) and by Dahlin (473 cases).
(7) Without his medicine he will most probably die.” The Swedish foreign ministry had been told that Peter Dahlin was receiving medicine, his brother said.
(8) On Wednesday afternoon, the Chinese government confirmed Dahlin was in custody and said the Beijing-based activist was being held on suspicion of “endangering state security”.
(9) It alleged that Dahlin’s human rights group, the Chinese Urgent Action Working Group or CUAWG, had “hired and trained others to gather, fabricate and distort information about China”.
(10) In Dahlin and Unni's series of 8,542 bone tumors, 39 of which were CMF, none were found in the femoral shaft.
(11) A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China Read more In one of the most prominent cases, Swedish NGO worker Peter Dahlin was paraded on the national broadcaster after three weeks in detention , declaring: “I have violated Chinese law through my activities here.
(12) Supporters of Peter Dahlin, the Swedish human rights activist being held by Chinese police, have dismissed allegations he was a foreign agent attempting to undermine the Communist party as ridiculous and absurd.
(13) Chinese authorities have offered scant details of why they are holding Dahlin, who went missing on 3 January while travelling to Beijing’s international airport on his way to Thailand.
(14) Chinese claims that Dahlin had endangered state security were baseless, the group added.
(15) Friends and colleagues say Dahlin suffers from Addison’s disease, a rare hormonal disorder that requires regular medication.
(16) Dahlin, a Beijing-based campaigner who was detained in early January , was paraded on Chinese television on Tuesday night to make what friends and colleagues describe as a “forced confession”.
(17) In a statement, CUAWG claimed Dahlin, who has worked in China since 2007, had been “arbitrarily detained on spurious accusations”.
(18) The Chinese authorities must immediately release Peter from detention and drop all charges against him.” A spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry confirmed they had taken “coercive measures” against Dahlin on Wednesday, though they had denied knowledge of the case the previous afternoon.
(19) Dahlin played only 31 games for Blackburn, scoring four goals, as he struggled with a back injury.
(20) In January Peter Dahlin, a Beijing-based Swedish human rights campaigner, was taken into secret detention and accused of being an agent working for “western anti-China forces” to stir up opposition to the Communist party.
Inulin
Definition:
(n.) A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modest reductions in renal function as measured by clearances of inulin and p-aminohippurate occurred acutely only in the patients with renal impairment.
(2) Induction of NSN resulted in a significant fall of inulin clearance (Cin) and paraaminohippurate clearance at 2 hours, 24 hours, and 7 days in both groups.
(3) Linear regression analyses (LRA) were performed to determine whether the percentage dose at various time intervals after injection correlated with GFR calculated on the basis of creatinine and inulin clearance data.
(4) Sera depleted of terminal complement components by treatment with inulin or cobra venom factor and C8-deficient human serum did not support phagocytosis of the test strains.
(5) The drug and inulin were injected into the right internal carotid artery as a rapid bolus and the venous outflow curve at the posterior facial vein was obtained.
(6) The present study demonstrates that this fluorocarbon perfusion technique maintains the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), as evidenced by the small volume (1.77-3.33%) accessible to [carboxyl-14C]inulin.
(7) Brain uptake of inulin and methotrexate was significantly increased in the dogs made hydrocephalic 4 weeks prior to perfusion, but was less so in the 8-week hydrocephalics.
(8) Inulin clearance was minimally enhanced, and para-aminohippuran clearance was slightly decreased by candoxatril in both groups.
(9) The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was measured using a continuous inulin infusion in control, treadmill running, and swimming experiments in intact and splenectomized dogs.
(10) The influence of various medium supplements on Sertoli cell (Sc) monolayer permeability to [3H]inulin and polarized secretion of transferrin (Trf) and androgen-binding protein (ABP) was investigated in a two-compartment culture chamber.
(11) This could only be explained if these compounds distributed with the albumin space and not the inulin space.
(12) Polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000) and [(14)C]inulin served as water markers.2.
(13) Mean creatinine clearance (Ccreat) in donor was 78% that of controls, which was similar to the 85% ratio of inulin clearance (Cin) in donors compared with that of controls.
(14) By measuring inulin clearance, lithium clearance and urinary excretion rates of sodium and water, the changes in proximal and distal tubular sodium handling were dissociated.
(15) Three dialysis membranes, including a polyacrilonitrile membrane, a polycarbonate membrane and a cuprophan membrane coated with charcoal, have been compared with cuprophan in order to assess their ability to clear from aqueous solution and plasma, substances thought to be of pathogenetic importance in hepatic coma (ammonia, short chain fatty acids and mercaptans), some protein bound (glycocholate and bromsulphthalein) and some middle molecular weight molecules (ethylenediaminetetracetic acid, cyanocobalamin and inulin).
(16) Glomerular filtration rates obtained by this method (method A) and those obtained with two widely used single-injection techniques, the slope-intercept method (method B), and the two-compartment method (method C), were compared with GFRs obtained by standard inulin clearance techniques in 14 dogs.
(17) For unknown reasons, multiple doses of these liposomes resulted in further reduction in ocular inulin absorption when compared with single doses.
(18) It was shown that the degradative products of levan or inulin and low concentrations of fructose were able to induce levanase expression.
(19) Aqueous humor dynamics were studied in the dogfish, Squalus acanthias, using isotopically labeled inulin, Na+, Cl-, and HCO-3.
(20) Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal blood flow (RBF) were calculated from the inulin and p-aminohippuric acid clearances, respectively.