(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.
Indoxyl
Definition:
(n.) A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concentration of indoxyl sulfate in bile of a uremic rat was much lower than that in the uremic serum, suggesting that the adsorption of indoxyl sulfate in intestine is not a major mechanism of decreasing the serum concentration of indoxyl sulfate.
(2) 5-Bromo-indoxyl acetate esterase was likewise absent from the parietal vascular cells of the central artery.
(3) As a model alkaline phosphatase and non-specific esterase were investigated with indoxyl substrates and 11 tetrazolium salts of different reducible substances in livers and kidneys of rat.
(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) The most recently published method for the assay of testicular hyaluronidase preparations was based on the premise that the enzyme also exhibited carboxylesterase activity towards indoxyl acetate.
(6) Oxindole, 3-methyloxindole, and indoxyl were identified as metabolites of indole, 3-methylindole, and 3-indolyl acetate degradation, respectively.
(7) When using the indoxyl method the incubation period can be reduced from 2.5-3 hr to 40-50 min.
(8) The absorbed indole is converted to indoxyl sulfate through indoxyl in liver.
(9) In normal subjects, ingestion of hippuric acid or potassium indoxyl sulfate significantly increased fractional urinary excretion of uric acid.
(10) was obtained with the indoxyl acetate test than with the trimethylamine N-oxide test.
(11) Compared with the already existing methods the azo-indoxyl and indigogenic procedures are by far the most suitable techniques.
(12) Indoxyl derivatives were detected as minor products among the urinary metabolites of two trial drugs, a benzodiazepine (GP 55 129) and a benzophenone (CGP 11 952).
(13) Indole is metabolized by two pathways, one via indoxyl to isatin, N-formylanthranilic acid and anthranilic acid, and the other via oxindole to 5-hydroxyoxindole and possibly to o-aminophenylacetic and anthranilic acid.
(14) The of phenazine methosulphate improves the indoxyl-tetrazolium techniques above all in the neutral and acid range.
(15) The patients given AST-120 showed significantly reduced serum concentration of indoxyl sulphate as compared to control haemodialysis patients, even though the serum concentrations of urea nitrogen and creatinine did not decrease significantly in the patients treated with AST-120.
(16) Medium m-CP, designed for the isolation of Clostridium perfringens from water samples, contains indoxyl beta-D-glucoside, an expensive chemical that is present at a high concentration in this medium.
(17) Radioactivity is present as indoxyl sulphate (0.8% dose) and 5-hydroxyoxindole conjugates (0.6%).
(18) Certain uremic metabolites are recognized to have high affinity to serum protein and some of them have been identified as hippuric acid (HA), quinolinic acid (QA) and indoxyl sulfate (IS).
(19) In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the cytochemical approach to problems in microbiology, an indoxyl method was developed for the demonstration of beta-galactosidase activity in unfixed bacteria.
(20) The colors are formed from the substrate indoxyl sulfate (indican) and all 7 patients had bacteria in the urine that would produce blue colonies on agar enriched with the urine (filter sterilized) of the patients involved.