(n.) A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).
Example Sentences:
(1) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(2) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(3) Jacalin preferentially bound to alpha-linked non-reducing D-galactose.
(4) The concentration dependences of response of frog tongue to D-fructose, D-glucose, and sucrose were almost the same, D-galactose, however, elicited a much larger response in comparison with the other sugars in the whole range of concentrations examined.
(5) This preparation was able to incorporate [(14)C]galactose from UDP-[(14)C]galactose into a water-soluble polysaccharide, which has a probable molecular weight of at least 4600.
(6) If an inhibitory concentration of Dgalactose was add 24 to 40 hr after mitogenic activation, rate of 3H-thymadine uptake at 72 hr was two to twenty times above the rate induced in cultures to which no galactose was added.
(7) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
(8) The results are presented as effectiveness factor plots graphed as functions of bulk galactose and oxygen concentrations.
(9) Liver uptake was blocked by N-acetylgalactosamine but not by N-acetylglucosamine, which indicates that galactose-specific recognition sites are responsible for the LacFab-induced hepatic uptake.
(10) This method has been used to identify cells with biochemical lesions in the oxidation of propionate, galactose, hypoxanthine and pyruvate; it has allowed us to identify a new variant of methylmalonicaciduria; we believe it can be extended to include other metabolites and pathways.
(11) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(12) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(13) The presence of ethyleneglycol, galactose, glucose and fatty acids was shown by degradation studies.
(14) We now provide evidence strongly suggesting that the primary defect in Lec8 and Clone 13 cells is their inability to translocate UDP-galactose into the lumen of the Golgi apparatus.
(15) While the identity of this compound has not been established, it is suggested that the product is lactobionic acid in which the galactose moeity is in the furanose form.
(16) In addition other relevant carbohydrate components like ribose, mannose, galactose and glucose can be determined simultaneously.
(17) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
(18) The intensities of the chemotactic responses were found to vary in proportion to the concentration of galactose receptors.
(19) Whereas fructokinase I was induced specifically by growth of the organism on sucrose, fructokinase II was derepressed during growth on ribose, galactose, maltose, and lactulose.
(20) Since intestinal sodium absorption was so enhanced by an actively transported sugar, fructose and galactose perfusion fluids were prepared, and it was found that fructose was less well absorbed than glucose or galactose: in general, the results with these sugars were consistent with the sodium-dependent active transport of galactose and the passive transport of fructose, unrelated to sodium transport.
Lactose
Definition:
(n.) Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly called lactin.
(n.) See Galactose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(2) 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.
(3) These swine were compared to four groups fed the medicated diet to determine the effect of duration of treatment and degree of animal isolation on the persistence of resistance in lactose-fermenting enteric organisms.
(4) Preliminary results in humans indicate that 3H-I was absorbed to a much greater extent following oral administration of the drug in sesame oil than when admixed with lactose.
(5) Measurements of the lactose repressor over a tenfold range of cell growth rates were made on protein extracts from Escherichia coli cultures grown in media with various carbon energy sources.
(6) A role of lactose synthetase as the rate-limiting enzyme for lactose biosynthesis and the possible significance of the hydrolytic activities are discussed with respect to lactogenesis.
(7) The site I Mn2+, site II Ca2+-activated enzyme has a maximum velocity similar to that of the Mn2+-activated enzyme, and is the enzyme form that must act in lactose synthesis in vivo.
(8) The ABH(+)Le(a-b-) group had higher lactose contents than the other groups (p less than 0.01).
(9) Within that region there were two sequences, 74 and 100 bp long, that showed 46% and 50% identity, respectively, to sequences in the first 600 bp of lacY, the structural gene for the lactose permease.
(10) To determine the validity of breath H2 measurements in detecting lactase deficiency, capillary blood glucose and breath H2 were measured after ingestion of 50 g lactose in 34 patients with abdominal symptoms or diarrhea.
(11) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(12) Satisfactory calibrations for lactose were obtained with the 2 Milko-scan 203 models with standard errors of estimate of 0.034 and 0.033%.
(13) In trial 1, part 2, supplementation with 4.8% fish meal increased concentration of milk protein and yields of milk, protein, lactose, and SNF.
(14) However, all of the lectins competed for the same binding sites on rabbit erythrocytes, and could be inhibited by the same saccharide haptens (notably lactose and thiodigalactoside).
(15) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
(16) Starting from peracetylated chloro- or bromo-glycosyl donors of N-acetylneuraminic acid, N-acetylglucosamine, glucose and lactose, the corresponding p-formylphenyl glycosides were synthesized stereospecifically under phase transfer catalysed conditions at room temperature in yields of 38-67%.
(17) Lactose H2 breath test seems less reliable for our purposes because of the possible presence of children with lactase deficiences, hardly comparable with the mucosal damage.
(18) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
(19) Since the latter may lead to avoidance of calcium sources and may exacerbate the bone disease in populations at risk, we studied lactose tolerance and histomorphometrically analyzed undecalcified transiliac bone biopsies in a consecutive group of postmenopausal women with the osteoporotic spinal compression fracture syndrome.
(20) A comparison has been made between the physiology and amino acid sequence of the lactose carriers of Klebsiella pneumoniae M5a1 and Escherichia coli K-12.