(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.
Orcein
Definition:
(n.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The orcein staining method seems to be a reliable addition to differentiating histologically between PBC and CAH.
(2) Microscopic examinations of eggs stained with aceto-orcein or the DNA fluorochrome bisbenzimide and direct observations on isolated sperm aster complexes show that halothane induces polyspermy (multiple sperm entry) when present at fertilization.
(3) 5 in whom a clinical and histological diagnosis of Indian Childhood Cirrhosis was made had massive orcein-staining deposits in liver cells.
(4) Determination of fungal elastase, however, requires partial purification of culture extracts and the orcein elastin or gravimetric method.
(6) The orcein positive substance localized in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, less often it was also seen in a few Kupffer cells.
(7) Aceto-orcein and Giemsa when used cold were found to produce relatively artefact-free preparations.
(8) Orcein-positive material in Kupffer cells was not associated with HBsAg as evaluated by the immune peroxidase method.
(9) This enzyme was inactivated by diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), phenylmethyl sulphonylfluoride (PMSF), soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI), or elastatinal, suggesting a seryl protease resembling elastase, but it failed to digest elastin-orcein.
(10) This group of patients may therefore have both biliary disease are hepatocellular damage, and can be separated from CAH by the orcein method.
(11) These HBcAg inclusions stain greyish pink with chromotrope aniline blue and are negative for orcein, the periodic acid-Schiff reaction, and the Feulgen reaction for DNA.
(12) Liver specimens from 103 patients with various hepatic diseases and from 297 consecutive liver biopsies examined routinely were stained with orcein after oxidation of the tissue sections with potassium permanganate.
(13) One conspicuous feature was the substantially reduced quantity of positive elements in comparison with the results of staining with aldehydefuchsine and orceine.
(14) Cytofluorometric measurements of orcein-stained chromatin revealed an emission peak at 585 nm with a shoulder at 620 nm.
(15) Orcein-positive material was very frequently found in protracted viral hepatitis and in chronic active hepatitis, as well as in other liver diseases with or without cholestasis; it was absent in liver cirrhosis.
(16) The pattern of copper distribution in human newborn liver was investigated by histochemical methods (rhodamine, orcein and rubeanic acid) and by atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(17) OPHM in HCC was stained with orcein when the tissue sections were preoxidized.
(18) It did not correspond to the pattern and texture of material stained with PAS, Sudan Black or acid orcein.
(19) root tips) and involves the treatment of root tips with 1-2% solution of trypsin either in buffer or in 0.5 N HCl for 5-10 minutes at 37 C or for 30-60 minutes near 0 C followed by staining with 1.5% acetic orcein: 1 N HCl (19:1).
(20) All 17 biopsy specimens from patients with Wilson's disease had high liver copper concentrations, but only nine had positive staining for copper, and six were orcein positive.