(n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) A trypsin inhibitor was extracted from eggplant exocarps with several buffers.
(2) Respirable (10 less than 10 micrometers) raw cotton dusts associated with the processing of middling, SLM and LM raw cottons were predicted to contain the following % weight composition of specific vegetable ingredients: leaflike = 70--72%, stem = 13--18%, bark = 3--8%, exocarp-mesocarp = 3.6%, endocarp = 1--2% and seed = 0.5--2%.
(3) From the data obtained the three components of the plant ("exocarp", "seed", and "stem") could be correctly classified.
(4) The activities of the exocarp were greater than those of the sarcocarp and the activities from immature fruits (collected in July-August) were greater than those from mature fruits.
(5) Isoelectrofocusing demonstrated that this crude inhibitor in the eggplant exocarps was composed of at least three forms, one of which differed in its isoelectric point.
(6) A protein proteinase inhibitor was isolated and purified from eggplant exocarp by heat treatment, ammomium sulfate fractionation, column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-25 and G-50.
(7) Both crude ethanol extracts of eggplant brown substances and acetate buffer extracts from eggplant exocarps showed similarly an enzyme inhibition of competitive type.
(8) A proteinase inhibitor was isolated and partially purified from the exocarp of eggplant, Solanum melongena L., by means of acetate buffer extraction, heat treatment, salting-out and column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose.
Outermost
Definition:
(a.) Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(2) A marked, reversible swelling of the outermost layer of the stratum granulosum was observed during short circuiting of the skin compared to the homogeneous appearance of the epithelium under open circuit conditions.
(3) With an ultrathin section preparation of strain ST67P conjugated with ferritin-labelled rabbit anti-homologous strain serum, numerous ferritin granules surrounding the outermost layer of large capsule were electronmicro-scopically demonstrated.
(4) The outermost strands are consistently parallel to the differentiated segment of the plasma membrane, which is invariably associated with surface projections.
(5) Instead there is a complex, tight layer of cells, the interface layer, composed in the innermost portion of the dura mater (the dural border cells) and the outermost portion of the arachnoid (the arachnoid barrier layer).
(6) Sequential removal of layers of the walls of fresh specimens of the gastro-intestinal tract showed the following correlation between the sonographic and histological findings: the innermost and outermost highly echogenic lines correspond to incident and exit echoes.
(7) When there was retraction space, the role of the outermost cells of a nest diminished or disappeared.
(8) What these factors are is as yet not known; however, it is clear that autoantibodies found in high frequency in SS, specifically anti-Ro and anti-La, are associated with HLA class II alleles, found at the HLA-DQA1 and DQB1 loci, which have in common the presence of specific amino acid residues that are found in the second hypervariable region of the first (outermost) domain.
(9) Through such routes, material of texture and density similar to that of the outermost cell wall layer appears to be deposited extracellularly.
(10) The polygonal cells in the outermost layer of the epidermis, though rich in phospholipid contain small amounts of cholesterol and its esters.
(11) As development progresses, immunofluorescence also appears, first, in the outermost zone of the retina and then in the plexiform layers.
(12) Therefore, neurons in the outermost layers of reaggregates, mostly consisting of amacrine cells, were studied with cell-attached recording.
(13) It is concluded that the 193 nm photons have such a shallow penetration depth, being limited to the outermost epithelial cells, that classical photokeratitis occurs from the fluorescence emitted at the corneal epithelial absorption site.
(14) Cellular actin was concentrated in the outermost thin cytoplasmic layer and in microvilli.
(15) The innermost ciliar of this zone were shorter than the outermost.
(16) Collecting ducts in the outermost portion of the inner stripe of the outer medulla and cells of the juxtaglomerular apparatus also expressed A1 adenosine receptor mRNA.
(17) Mineral and fluoride concentration changes in the outermost layers of bovine enamel (depth less than 1 micron) were measured after demineralization in unbuffered hydroxyethylcellulose gels of pH = 5.4 with an intrinsic fluoride concentration of about 0.02 ppm.
(18) Three distinct spore coats were detected, the outermost of which was composed of seven layers.
(19) In unaffected intima and in fatty streaks, the cells with lipid inclusions were found predominantly in the outermost intimal layer including the connective tissue and in part of the median hyperplastic layer.
(20) The outermost cuticulin layer of the cuticle in instars II-VI is elevated to form a dense mat of epicuticular hairs.