(n.) A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.
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Wort
Definition:
(n.) A plant of any kind.
(n.) Cabbages.
(n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.
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(1) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(2) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
(3) Attracting particular controversy was a comment article in the Luxemburger Wort , a paper traditionally supportive of Juncker.
(4) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
(5) The influence of extracts from oak bark, St. John's-wort leaves and pine buds on natural immunity characteristics of mice has been studied.
(6) Tom Wort, a linebacker from Crawley, West Sussex , above, saw his stock slip in a frustrating final season with the University of Oklahoma, but should still be selected in the latter rounds.
(7) No cyclopiazonic acid was produced in vitro by Penicillium nalgoviensis strains from the Czechoslovak collection on sweet wort agar containing peptone from soybean.
(8) This structure is an insert relative to the liver-wort.
(9) The content of sterols in the yeast Candida boidinii is low: 0.35--0.40% in a mineral medium with methanol as a sole carbon source; 0.55--0.60% in a medium with ethanol; 0.50--0.60% in a medium with glucose; 0.50--0.55% on wort--agar.
(10) If echinacea is the Lemsip of the herbal pharmacopia and St John's Wort the Prozac, kava kava is the valium.
(11) Analytical methods for the determination of polyphenols of malt, barley, hop, wort, and beer are described.
(12) These experiments revealed that the diacetyl concentration in wort fermented by the plasmid-containing yeast strain was significantly lower than that in wort fermented by the parental strain.
(13) The effects of the flow rates of the wort on the period of the primary fermentation and the diacetyl levels in green beer were studied under the conditions of the volume fraction of gel beads at phi = 0.40, the fermentation temperature at 10 degrees C, and the ratio of circulation at n = 5.
(14) As a result of long continuous fermentation of brewing wort by fixed yeast cells, the number of cells in the fermenter increased as well as their wet weight.
(15) St. John's wort (Hypercum perforatum) contains hypericin and hypericin-like substances as well as flavonoids, of which particularly Quercetin has generated a wide-spread controversial discussion with respect to mutagenic action.
(16) The thermotolerant yeast Candida tropicalis, strain T-20, was cultivated on a chemically defined medium with glucose or malt wort in flasks with shaking at three temperatures: optimal (36degreesC), supraoptimal (38degreesC) and submaximal (41degreesC).
(17) Thus, first and finished wort caused only a minor acid response which was 48% and 46% of maximal acid output.
(18) Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (Psychotonin M) (St. John's wort) with known concentrations of hypericin were tested in several models generally accepted as screening methods in experimental animal studies for the recognition of psychotropic, and in particular of antidepressant activity.
(19) Extract from oak cork, St. John's wort leaves and flowers and pine buds possess more pronounced bactericidal properties with respect to staphylococci, shigellae, Escherichia coli than decoctions from these medicinal plants.
(20) The effect of ammonium ions on the activity of alcohol:NAD-, L-malate:NAD-, L-glutamate:NADP-oxidoreductases was studied in wine yeast during fermentation of wine wort containing 18% of sugar, and also after the biomass cultivated in the conditions of nitrogen deficiency had been transferred to media with various amounts of nitrogen and carbohydrates.