(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.
Synthetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Synthetical
Example Sentences:
(1) Further analysis with two other synthetic peptides (212Cys to 222Glu and Cys X 221Ile to 236Glu) indicated that the dodecapeptide Ile-Glu-Phe-Gln-Lys-Asn-Asn-Arg-Leu-Leu-Glu mimicked either the whole or a major part of the neutralization epitope.
(2) Actinomycin D could suppress the effects of RSD feeding on the protein synthetic rate of some, but not of all, secretory proteins.
(3) We studied the haemodynamic (ultrasound Doppler flow probes) effects of synthetic atriopeptin II at natriuretic doses in conscious rats.
(4) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
(5) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(6) Binding studies with synthetic IL2-derived peptides revealed the location of the epitope, which is recognized by mAb BO-7: A peptide representing amino acid residues 59-72 (peptide 84) is strongly reactive with the antibody, while an overlapping peptide (residues 48-69) is not.
(7) Because the HRG level is increased in Child A liver cirrhosis, we suggest that other mechanisms, other than simply a decreased synthetic capacity of the liver, contribute to the changes in HRG levels in patients with liver disease.
(8) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
(9) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(10) An antibody was generated against a synthetic peptide corresponding to a region of the protein encoded by alpha o2 cDNA.
(11) Sephadex chromatography of fractions which co-eluted with synthetic oCRF-41 or hAVP contained CRF bioactivity and this bioactivity was potentiated when synthetic hAVP or oCRF-41, respectively, were added to the fractions.
(12) Binding of uPA to filters was blocked by a synthetic oligopeptide containing the known receptor binding region of native uPA.
(13) Dynamics in the changes was established among the workers from the production of "Synthetic rubber and latex", associated with the duration of occupational exposure to styrene and divinyl.
(14) We then used synthetic peptides spanning the active fragment to identify the primary sequence of the adhesive site as Leu-Arg-Glu (LRE): neurons attach to an immobilized LRE-containing peptide, and soluble LRE blocks attachment of neurons to the s-laminin fragment.
(15) The internal carotid diameters increased 20% to 30% for both the vein and synthetic patched arteries.
(16) Studies using serum from mice that had been immunized with synthetic peptides from the HIV envelope region suggested that this response is directed, at least in part, at several determinants of the transmembrane portion of the HIV envelope glycoprotein.
(17) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(18) The synthetic S-nitroso-thiol, S-nitroso-N-acetylcysteine, markedly inhibited platelet aggregation with an IC50 of 6 nM.
(19) Arteriosclerotic plaques were found in the aorta and arteries of rabbits given homocysteine thiolactone, methionine or homocysteic acid, both parenterally and in a synthetic diet.
(20) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.