(n.) The imperial scepter in the Byzantine or Eastern Empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CH2Cl2 extract of Ferula sinaica afforded twelve sesquiterpenes including three new daucanes, 14-hydroxyvaginatin, 4 beta, 8 beta, 9 alpha-trihydroxy-6 alpha-p-hydroxy-benzoyloxydaucane, and isolancerotriol.
(2) The study of two chemically characterized varieties of Ferula communis showed that only plants containing prenylated coumarins are toxic.
(3) Spices used include red chillies (Capsicum annum), black pepper (piper nigrum), coriander seeds (Coriandrum sativum) cumin seeds (Cuminum cyminum), garlic (Allium sativum), asafoetida (Ferula foetida), dry ginger (Zingiber officinale) and ajowan (Carum copticum).
(4) The effects of an ethanol extract of Ferula sinaica roots on the smooth muscles of rabbit and guinea pig were tested in vitro using isolated segments of intestine, trachea and aorta.
(5) The effects of an aqueous extract of Ferula ovina were tested in vitro using isolated segments of rabbit and guinea pig intestine, trachea and aorta.
(6) Administration of galbanic acid isolated from the roots of Ferula kopetdaghensis Eug.
(7) Twelve sesquiterpenoid esters, including two new daucane and four new germacrane esters, were isolated from the roots of Ferula orientalis var.
(8) The contrasting data on the toxicity of Ferula communis most probably raised from the use of chemically uncharacterized specimens.
(9) In addition to the three known daucane esters (2,3,8) and one phenylpropanoid (9), the petroleum ether extract of the roots of Ferula tingitana yielded four new daucane esters: 14-p-anisoyloxy-dauc-4,8-diene (1), acetyltingitanol (4), acetyldesoxodehydrolaserpitine (5), and 4-beta-hydroxy-6-alpha-p-hydroxybenzoyloxy-10-alpha-angeloyloxy dauc-8-ene (6).
(10) The effects of an ethanolic extract of Ferula sinaica roots on the uterine smooth muscles of rats and guinea pigs were tested in vitro using isolated uterine horns.
Ferule
Definition:
(n.) A flat piece of wood, used for striking, children, esp. on the hand, in punishment.
(v. t.) To punish with a ferule.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ability of 814 strains of Micromycetes to grow on ferulic and syringic acids was investigated.
(2) A number of other industrial applications are based on the antioxidant potential of ferulic acid.
(3) Corn root tissues include cell walls composed of complex polysaccharides esterified with ferulic acid residues, as well as mucilages which are highly hydrated and expanded.
(4) Some injections of the medicines, including Ligusticum, Ligustrazine, Ligustylid and ferulic acid, were tested clinically and experimentally.
(5) As a result of these studies, it was observed that significant protective effects exist in both ether and water soluble portions prepared from the above methanol extract, and two of the active principles in the ether and water soluble ones were identified as ferulic acid and adenosine, respectively.
(6) Comparable inhibitory effects were obtained by ingesting caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, or ferulic acid with the nitrosation mixture.
(7) These new matrices (sinapinic, ferulic and caffeic acids) are cinnamic acid derivatives that have several practical advantages over the nicotinic acid matrices previously used.
(8) Methanogenic microbial consortia, originally enriched from anaerobic sewage sludge with ferulic acid or styrene (vinylbenzene) as sole organic carbon and energy sources, were used to study transformation of styrene under strictly anaerobic conditions.
(9) The structurally related compounds chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and ferulic acid are less potent inhibitors.
(10) As determined by in vivo radiotracer feeding experiments, precursor supplementation studies, and enzymatic assays, the defect in the sin1 mutants appears to block the conversion of ferulate to 5-hydroxyferulate in the general phenylpropanoid pathway.
(11) The Km values for ferulic acid and caffeic acid were 0.24 mM and for H2O2 0.04 mM with caffeic acid and 0.48 mM with ferulic acid.
(12) The amount of free ferulic acid and gamma-oryzanol in plasma and LDL and the area of aortic atherosclerotic plaques were determined.
(13) Three antioxidants (daphnetin, ferulate, and maltol), derived from Chinese herbal remedies, inhibited AQD- and H2O2-mediated CL, whereas a fourth, anisodamine, had no effect.
(14) We propose that the O-methyltransferase activity is an important component in the rapid resistance response of the cells, which depends on the formation of cell wall-bound ferulic polymers.
(15) This study is undertaken to develop a simplified, rapid method to determine both immediate and potential off odors due to 4-vinyl guaiacol and its odorless precursor, ferulic acid, from a single sample preparation and chromatographic analysis.
(16) The influence of caffeic acid and ferulic acid on X-ray- or UV-induced SCEs was also studied.
(17) In the present study, the influence of sodium ferulate (SF) on hypotensive effect and urinary excretion of TXB2 after captopril (CAP) was observed in 44 patients with essential hypertension.
(18) Ferulic acid, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid, and salicylic acid had no effect on the formation of the hydroxyl radicals.
(19) Ferulic acid (FA) is a phenolic compound contained in L. wallichii and Angelica sinensis (Oliv.)
(20) Two new compounds, a long chain ester 1 of p-coumaric acid and a prenylated isoflavone, senegalensin [5], 5,4'-dihydroxy-8-(gamma,gamma-dimethylallyl)-[5"-(hydroxyisopropyl ) (2",3":6.7)] isoflavone, in addition to a known long chain ester 2 of ferulic acid, have been isolated and characterized from the stem bark of the Cameroonian medicinal plant Erythrina senegalensis.