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Indigo


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
  • (n.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.
  • (a.) Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (2) Among the latter, there were sensitizations, to our knowledge hitherto unreported in the literature: to indigo carmine (2 cases), monensin sodium (1 case), thiabendazole (1 case), methylchlorpindol (1 case) and amprolium hydrochloride (1 case).
  • (3) Over a crest in the road was the cause of the electronic silence: the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), an array of radio telescopes set against the indigo vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  • (4) The enzymatic activity was revealed by reddish-brown, purple red, and indigo-blue cytoplasmic precipitate, using the substrates alpha-naphthyl-acetate, naphthol-AS acetate and 5-bromo-4-chloro-indoxyl acetate respectively.
  • (5) We conclude that avoiding of xylene, and mounting of the preparates in Histoclear (a xylene substitute) and Canada balsam (instead of synthetic resin mountants) yields a sharp and stable indigo precipitate.
  • (6) The plantations of the Carolina Low Country produced rice, indigo and cotton.
  • (7) Synthetic indigo, indirubin and isatin were tested for TCDD receptor affinity in competition experiments in vitro.
  • (8) When injected with indigo carmine, the vessels localized by the hydrogen-induced current impulses filled the entire anterior spinal artery from the low thoracic to the sacral region, whereas injection of the other vessels did not show filling.
  • (9) beta-galactosidase, revealed by an indigo blue reaction product, represents a valid tracer in immunohistochemistry.
  • (10) Chromosomal aberrations induced by indigo carmine (secondary amine-containing dye), fast green FCF (tertiary amine-containing dye) and sodium nitrite, singly and in combination, were studied in mice after prolonged feeding in the diet.
  • (11) Following aspirate cytology, the lesion was localized with indigo carmine and Kopans' wire and every patient underwent a standard open excisional biopsy.
  • (12) Observations on the instability of the indigo precipitate led us to investigate this phenomenon.
  • (13) Synthetic indigo of technical grade or 98% pure showed mutagenic effects, especially on TA98 + S9.
  • (14) A trichrome staining technique using safranin-indigo-picrocarmine (SIPC) can be used to distinguish the various stages of the cell cycle in onion root tip.
  • (15) He was hooked the moment he heard Mood Indigo on his grandparents' wireless set at the age of five: "Something about it made my ears tingle."
  • (16) A central region of 2.9 kbp complemented an xylA (for xylene oxygenase) mutant of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 and was also capable of conferring the ability to convert indole to indigo on strains of Escherichia coli and P. putida.
  • (17) No hemodynamic instability occurred during the operation until the patient was administered intravenous (IV) indigo carmine 5 ml.
  • (18) Until further studies defining the mechanism for its hypertensive side effect are performed, indigo carmine should be used with caution in patients with severe cardiac dysfunction.
  • (19) Later, at Burberry , models walked the catwalk in buttoned-up indigo jackets and matching jeans.
  • (20) However, indigo showed a high (Kd = 1.9 nM) affinity for the Ah or TCDD receptor.

Indium


Definition:

  • (n.) A rare metallic element, discovered in certain ores of zinc, by means of its characteristic spectrum of two indigo blue lines; hence, its name. In appearance it resembles zinc, being white or lead gray, soft, malleable and easily fusible, but in its chemical relation it resembles aluminium or gallium. Symbol In. Atomic weight, 113.4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One alloy tested contained 5% indium, and the second alloy contained 10% indium.
  • (2) Indium-111-labeled PMNs should be suitable for studying the kinetics and distribution of these cells in health and disease.
  • (3) Indium-111 white blood cell scans have proved useful to diagnose or exclude a diagnosis of abscess or inflammatory condition infiltrated with polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
  • (4) A negative indium scan is less helpful, failling to distinguish between neoplasm and focal cirrhosis.
  • (5) The small radioactive tracers sodium (24Na+), chloride (36Cl-) carbon labelled thiourea (14C-thiourea) and glucose (14C-D-glucose) were studied in indicator dilution experiments with indium labelled diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid (113mIn-DTPA) as reference substance.
  • (6) In addition, following an in vitro separation of the cellular elements of marrow with iron carbonyl, both iron and indium were found in the erythroid-rich supernatant, whereas sulfur colloid was in the precipitate.
  • (7) The limited diagnostic value of clinical evaluation and plain film radiography in abscess detection has lead to widespread use of sophisticated imaging techniques including Gallium-67 (67Ga) scintigraphy, Indium-111 WBC (111In-WBC) scintigraphy, computed tomography (CT), and ultrasonography (US).
  • (8) Indium-111 attached to bleomycin is useful in the scintigraphic localization of a variety of tumors.
  • (9) This study was undertaken to determine the specificity of indium-111 leukocyte scans for osteomyelitis when fractures are present.
  • (10) The effect of indium on gap junctional communication was investigated in primary cultured rat hepatocytes.
  • (11) These results suggest that Indium white cell labelling techniques which do not involve substantial cross-labelling of platelets are the best objective methods of establishing the presence or absence of graft sepsis.
  • (12) A new scintigraphic method to detect myocardial necrosis has been developed using antimyosin monoclonal antibody F ab labeled with indium-111 (111In-antimyosin).
  • (13) Various soluble tracers were evaluated, among them indium, scandium, and bromine.
  • (14) Rather surprising were the contents of mercury, indium, and cadmium found in some of the alloys as well as the low-level concentration of lead, and in a few cases antimony.
  • (15) This method was applied to patients suspected of suffering colorectal or ovarian cancer recurrences, in whom monoclonal antibodies against carcinoembryonic antigen, B72-3 or OC125 labelled with indium-111 were used.
  • (16) Placental scintigraphy with 113mIn (Indium) combined with cervical marking with a shielded 57Co (Cobalt) radioactive source was used to study uterine and placental growth in human pregnancy and placental location and migration in a total of 176 patients.
  • (17) Abnormal indium 111 uptake in the femoral region continued for a mean 114 days without the development of prosthetic graft infections.
  • (18) The adhesion of unstimulated and thrombin-stimulated platelets, washed and labelled with indium-111, was lower in the presence than in the absence of bradykinin or exogenous nitric oxide.
  • (19) The thrombus localizing properties of indium-111-recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (111In-rt-PA) have been investigated in an effort to achieve prompt and accurate detection of thrombi.
  • (20) The technique of indium 111 platelet imaging is performed easily in patients after surgery with some limitations as to the use of donor platelets and the occasionally altered imaging of the operative site.

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