(n.) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
(n.) Pollen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
(2) The major allergenic component of the whole body extract of D. farinae was the protein of MW 14-15KD, which was detected in 95.7% of 47 patients' sera sensitive to house dust mites.
(3) In both assays, microtiter plates coated with the crude extract of Dermatophagoides farinae were used.
(4) The house dust mite, Dermatophagoides farinae, was fractionated by a Sephadex G-200 column.
(5) D. pteronyssinus extracts with different concentrations of Der p I demonstrated parallel binding curves, whereas a potent D. farinae extract demonstrated less than 5% of the Der p I binding in the same assay.
(6) 2) By calculating the category score of explanation variables, the high IgE RAST score to Dermatophagoides farinae group had the strong influence power to the high score groups of IgE RAST and IgG4 antibody titers to food allergens.
(7) A similarity but no antigenic identity exists between the antigenic extracts of D. pteronyssinus and D. farinae.
(8) In conclusion, these data suggest that in asthmatic patients sensitive to Dermatophagoides farinae mononuclear cells stimulated with a related antigen produce one of cytokine(s) which possess(es) ECA, and may play an important role in the recruitment of eosinophils in chronic asthma.
(9) D. farinae-specific IgG, IgG1, IgG4 and IgA in Groups 2 and 3 increased until 5 years of age and thereafter they remained constant.
(10) Intracutaneous and inhalative provocation tests performed on 185 asthmatic Nigerian patients and 50 control patients using indigenous antigen extracts as well as imported ones showed that moulds, house dust and D. farinae are the most common allergens responsible for the patients' asthmatic symptoms.
(11) As a result of comparison, we concluded that the cDNAs prepared from live mite Dermatophagoides farinae corresponded to the mite allergen, Der f II.
(12) Allergens obtained from D. farinae and D. pteronyssinus grown on two different nutrient media have been found to contain common protein components.
(13) Twenty-five atopic children under 11 years of age were studied, using skin and RAST tests, for their specific IgE response to four species of pyroglyphid house dust mites, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, D. farinae, D. microceras and Euroglyphus maynei.
(14) In 58.6% of patients we found positive reaction to dermatophagoides Farinae, in 51.5% to house dust, in 47.6% to dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus, in 34.3% to Gramineae, in 28.9% to parietaria and in 14.8% to olea.
(15) 2) Lymphocytes from BA who were sensitive to house dust mite and Dermatophagoides farinae (D. farinae) antigens responded to specific antigens with Eo-CSF production, but those from normal volunteers did not.
(16) The sensitivities against house dust 1, D. pteronyssinus, and D. farinae ranged from 77.2 to 81.4%.
(17) Amounts of dust, concentrations and amounts of major allergens from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp42), Dermatophagoides microceras (Dm6), and Dermatophagoides farinae (Df6) were determined.
(18) HLA population and family study were performed in individuals allergic to Dermatophagoides farinae.
(19) Lipid was extracted from Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp) and D. farinae (Df).
(20) D. farinae antigen was detected in almost all dust samples, with a slight reduction in winter compared to summer.
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.