(n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.
(v. t.) To moisten; to wet.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(2) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(3) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(4) Using an anti-serum directed against the COOH-terminal region of neurotensin and an anti-serum raised xenopsin in radioimmunoassays, the presence of neurotensin- and xenopsin-like immunoreactivity in Sep-pak extracts of human gastric juice was demonstrated.
(5) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(6) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.
(7) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(8) The digestive juice showed no action on acetyl-L-tyrosine and benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl esters.
(9) Gastric juice was examined in terms not only of conventional indices, observed volume, titratable acidity and acid output, but also Vg, the volume corrected for pyloric loss and duodenal reflux.
(10) Asparagine, arginine, isoleucine and phenylalanine administered under the stimulation of secretin-pancreozymin significantly inhibited the secretion of pancreatic juice by 23%, 15%, 13% and 13%, and the output of amylase by 53%, 37%, 27% and 18%, respectively.
(11) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(12) [Na+],[Cl-)and[alkali]were determined in the alkaline gastric juice samples (pH greater than 7.0).
(13) In accordance with the admixture theory of the exocrine pancreatic secretion a linear relation between concentrations of bicarbonate and protein in the pancreatic juice is to be expected.2.
(14) Thus it can be tentatively suggested that it is prokallikrein A which is secreted into the pancreatic juice and represents the physiologically important zymogen.
(15) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(16) The microbial overgrowth syndrome of the small bowel (MOS) is characterized by clinically found symptoms of increased metabolic activities of microorganisms existing in a great number in the intestinal juice of these patients.
(17) Using this system, it was possible to separate and quantify each of the nine major proteins present in a small sample of pancreatic juice in 40 min.
(18) This appears to be caused by persistent reflux of gastric juice across a mechanically defective lower esophageal sphincter.
(19) At the same time, biochemical modifications of the pancreatic juice were described in alcoholics; later on, a new family of pancreatic secretory protein, the so-called "Pancreatic Stone Protein" was discovered.
(20) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
Scammony
Definition:
(n.) A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (C. Scammonia).
(n.) An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Scammony does contain ergot alkaloids, it is suggested that it will be an excellent source for this material, since the plants cultivation is inexpensive and easy.
(2) Only 1 extant study intimates the possible existence of ergot-like activity in Scammony, a study which showed that small doses of an ether extract of Scammony resin stimulated an isolated guinea pig uterus.
(3) In addition, an argument made from salient quotations from historical texts indicates that Scammony may also contain ergot alkaloids, although such compounds have yet to be chemically isolated.
(4) The ether-soluble resin glycoside ('jalapin') fraction obtained from scammony roots, on alkaline hydrolysis, gave a glycosidic acid, scammonic acid A, together with isobutyric, 2S-methylbutyric and tiglic acids.