(n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
(n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(6) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(7) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(9) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(11) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
(12) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
(13) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(14) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(15) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(16) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
(17) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(18) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
(19) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(20) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.
Hexamine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Actinomycin inhibits Mbo I activity in the presence of cobalt hexamine but not in the absence.
(2) At temperatures of 200-300 degrees C hexamine decomposition is reported to produce mainly ammonia and formaldehyde.
(3) Knee joint menisci from osteoarthritic and rheumatoid knees were analyzed for nitrogen, collagen, non-collagenous proteins (NCP) and hexamine content.
(4) BZ-IV is equally digestible in the presence and absence of cobalt hexamine by Hha I, further indicating that the structure of BZ-IV is fully B-like under these conditions.
(5) The available literature on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) was reviewed with emphasis on its toxicology and epidemiology, its thermal decomposition and regulatory concerns related to its uses.
(6) Hexamine was also found in biological samples taken from victims of the Damascus attacks, and soil samples taken from the scene.
(7) In order to preserve and enhance the visibility of negatively charged tissue components, particularly the glycosaminoglycan-containing proteoglycans, the cationic stains ruthenium red (RR) and ruthenium hexamine trichloride (RHT) were used.
(8) At neutral pH in the presence of Co hexamine, both strands of the insert have modification maxima situated at one-third of the distance from both ends.
(9) Globule leucocytes in two goats were positive for argentaffin reaction with Gomori hexamine silver stain.
(10) Hexamine cobalt chloride (HCC) increases the efficiency of blunt end ligation by T4 DNA ligase about 50 fold.
(11) The kinetics of electron transfer between cytochrome-c oxidase and ruthenium hexamine has been characterized using the native enzyme or its cyanide complex either solubilized by detergent (soluble cytochrome oxidase) or reconstituted into artificial phospholipid vesicles (cytochrome oxidase-containing vesicles).
(12) Morphological examination of incubated tissue after fixation in the presence of ruthenium hexamine trichloride (RHT) (included to preserve PG in situ) revealed, however, that the PG staining profiles across cartilage matrix varied with the composition of the incubation medium used.
(13) Fixation with ruthenium hexamine trichloride (RHT) and embedding in LR White served to preserve chondrocytes in the expanded state and matrix proteoglycans were observed as a reticular network of filaments.
(14) The effect of the simultaneous administration of hexamine mandelate and methionine on the urinary excretion of calcium, magnesium and phosphate is reported in 3 groups of paraplegic patients.
(15) Although hexamine produces a positive Ames test, most animal studies have shown hexamine to be of very low genetic risk even in very high doses.
(16) A new method for morphological diagnosis of various forms of amyloidosis based on the use of a hot buffered hexamine-silver solution is suggested.
(17) The results of gel mobility studies in the absence and presence of cobalt hexamine indicate that a B-Z junction corresponds to a stiff bend of the helix axis, with two or more conformers accessible at the junction site.
(18) The studies reviewed are in general agreement that hexamine thermal decomposition in the temperature range of 300-800 degrees C is characterized by an increase in HCN and a decrease in NH3 emissions with increasing temperature.
(19) With pentaethylene hexamine, when used alone, it is possible to create a linear pH 4-10 interval, provided the molarity ratios are altered in the two chambers of the gradient mixer.
(20) The effectiveness of hexamine as an antibacterial agent has been attributed to its slow hydrolysis to ammonia and formaldehyde.