(n.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
(n.) The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(2) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(3) Because diglyceride metabolism and cyclic beta-1,2-glucan biosynthesis are metabolically linked, future studies with diacylglycerol kinase mutants of R. meliloti 1021 should further elucidate the roles of the cyclic beta-1,2-glucans in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(4) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(5) This nonapeptide was aligned in a part of the metal-binding region conserved in all legume lectins.
(6) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(7) On every specimen of legume we have tried to confirm, or otherwise, the presence of A. flavus and the aflatoxins.
(8) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
(9) The use of vegetable proteins such as legumes or oilseeds proteins is often restricted by antinutritional or toxic factors.
(10) Foods such as legumes appear to be digested less rapidly than many cereal foods although even amongst these large differences in rates of in vitro digestion exist.
(11) (2) Individuals having IgE-mediated reactions to legume proteins, for example peanut and soybean, do not respond to the corresponding oil derived from those substances.
(12) Some legume species also contain chemicals of a different nature (i. e. lathyrogens, cyanogenetic glycosides, and others) which may be extremely toxic when ingested in significant amounts.
(13) The location of the metal and carbohydrate binding sites, established unequivocally in concanavalin A by high resolution X-ray crystallography, appears to be the same in the other legume lectins.
(14) Only a few foods and nutrients show marginal low intakes (fish, eggs and legumes; lipids, iron, thiamin and vitamin A).
(15) The antigenic specificity was also tested against subunits of 13 completely sequenced legume lectins separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and electrotransferred to nitrocellulose filters.
(16) Studies of diabetes using high fibre, high legume diets have almost uniformly noted improvements in glycemic control and blood lipid profile.
(17) The intimate association between the Rhizobium and the host nodule cell was compared with the Rhizobium association found in legumes.
(18) Also, the effects of a casein habitual diet or of one of three casein-legume habitual diets fed before and after the test meal were investigated.
(19) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
(20) retained on a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) to breakdown (chews per g LP breakdown) during eating was lower for leaf than stem fractions (8.4 v. 23.7) and lower for the grass than legume diets (10.5 v. 21.6).
Pulse
Definition:
(n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
(n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
(n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.
(v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.
(v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(5) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(6) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(7) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(8) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(9) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(10) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(11) The diagnosis of an arterial injury may be readily apparent, but the excellent upper-extremity collateral circulation may create palpable distal pulses despite a significant proximal arterial injury.
(12) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(13) The twitches elicited by 0.1 msec pulses were abolished by tetrodotoxin, but were not reduced by dimethyltubocurarine or by hexamethonium.
(14) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(15) Patients were grouped as +RSC if they developed a sustained spontaneous palpable pulse or blood pressure and as -RSC if they did not develop a pulse or blood pressure.
(16) The system employs continuous drug treatment (3 concentrations) for up to 8 h and recovery-cell populations after pulse treatments with a high dose.
(17) Replication patterns of the larval salivary gland chromosomes were compared after pulse labeling with 3H-thymidine and autoradiography.
(18) The observed purity under the selected conditions ranges from 80%-99% and is in accordance with the estimates of the purities made on the basis of the simultaneously recorded pulse shapes.
(19) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(20) To date, a cognate action of E2 on the GnRH pulse generator has not been described.