(n.) A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.
(n.) The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and for medicinal purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The favorable effects of up to 25% toasted soybean meal and 3% licorice root extract on the levels of the four enzymes, without unfavorable changes in clinical parameters, might account in part for the chemopreventive activities of these additives.
(2) Among chemically defined natural polyphenols, condensed tannins (epicatechin gallate oligomers) and monomeric and oligomeric hydrolyzable tannins potently stimulated PMN iodination, whereas polyphenols of lower molecular weight (gallic acid, alkyl gallates, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, caffeic acid derivatives and licorice flavonoids) had much less activity.
(3) Neither licorice nor glycyrrhizin promoted growth or induced plaque formation.
(4) Exchangeable sodium in our patient with licorice-induced hypertension was increased to a comparable extent as in primary hyperaldosteronism.
(5) As a first step to elucidate the disposition of traditional Chinese formulations which contain licorice, the disposition of plain licorice was investigated in humans.
(6) The contents of three saponins in Chinese Licorice roots derived from four Glycyrrhiza species were determined.
(7) To clarify whether glycyrrhizin, the aqueous extract of licorice root and a drug for treatment of chronic active hepatitis, prevents the development of hepatic injury induced by carbon tetrachloride, allyl formate, and endotoxin, the present study was undertaken in rats.
(8) Testing of the therapeutic efficacy of Remefa S, a pharmaceutical comprising glycyrrhizinic acid, the major active substance of licorice, on the evolution of the disease in late chronic viral hepatitis B.
(9) The formation of glycyrrhizin, the main triterpene glucuronide of the licorice root, was not detected among the biotransformation products.
(10) The major effect of licorice intoxication is hypokalemia, which may explain most of the observed clinical symptoms and morphological changes.
(11) Glycyrrhizinates such as monoammonium and dipotassium glycyrrhizinates which are extracted from licorice, converted to easily water-soluble salts and refined have been formulated in many quasi-drug products as an anti-inflammatory agent.
(12) The anti-allergic activity of bryonolic acid (1) isolated from the cultured cells of Luffa cylindrica L. (Cucurbitaceae) was compared with that of glycyrrhetinic acid (2), the aglycone of glycyrrhizin from licorice.
(13) Isoliquiritigenin, glabridin, licoarylcoumarin and licoricidin were identified as strong inhibitors of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase in waste materials which were obtained during the industrial extraction of glycyrrhizin from licorice roots.
(14) The results are summarized as follows: 1) Oral administration of 0.5 g of Ko-ken-huang-lien-huang-chin-tang (pueraria, coptis, scute and licorice combination) to piglets at 1 day old was effective in reducing incidence of infection (P less than 0.1) and increasing the body weight gain (P less than 0.05) during the first 10 days of life.
(15) Volatile components of two foodstuffs with characteristic aromas, apple and licorice, and fecal samples obtained from subjects on high-apple and licorice diets, were analyzed by head-space gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer.
(16) The mechanism was studied by which isoliquiritigenin, a new aldose reductase inhibitor purified from licorice (Glycyrrhizae radix), inhibits platelet aggregation.
(17) The effects of glycyrrhizin, a component of licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) roots, on the production of interferon-gamma in human peripheral lymphocyte-macrophage cultures by concanavalin A (Con A) was examined.
(18) The importance of licorice-induced hypokalemia for the development of arrhythmias is underestimated from the small number of published cases.
(19) We conclude that patients with a predisposition for arrhythmias should avoid licorice candies.
(20) The effect of glycyrrhizin (GR), a Chinese herbal drug extracted from licorice roots, on the host resistance to tumors was investigated in a murine system.
Liquorice
Definition:
(n.) See Licorice.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have evaluated the effect of the synthetic liquorice derivative, carbenoxolone, on this enzyme complex.
(2) After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described.
(3) The town is also home to Svaneke Bolcher, where you can watch traditional Danish sweets being made, and Johan Bülow ’s inventive liquorice, which is now sold in shops such as Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.
(4) These results show that potentially serious metabolic effects may occur in some people who eat modest amounts of liquorice daily for less than a week.
(5) Both tragant sulfate, a pepsin inhibitor, and deglycyrrhizinized liquorice extract proved to be without prophylactic effect.
(6) We have previously demonstrated, in adrenalectomized male rats, that the liquorice derivative carbenoxolone (CS) can confer mineralocorticoid (MC)-like activity upon the glucocorticoid corticosterone (B) and amplify the Na(+)-retaining actions of aldosterone (Aldo) and deoxycorticosterone (DOC).
(7) A case of pseudo-hyperaldosteronism secondary to prolonged daily ingestion of liquorice is reported.
(8) They ate liquorice in daily doses of 100 g or 200 g (equivalent to 0-7-1-4 g glycyrrhizinic acid) for one to four weeks.
(9) The binding of agonists (liquorice derivatives) and antagonists (spironolactones and cyproheptadine) to Type I aldosterone binding sites was evaluated in human mononuclear leucocytes and compared with data previously obtained using kidney cytosol or kidney slices from adrenalectomized rats.
(10) A double-blind trial of deglycyrrhizinated liquorice was performed in 47 patients with active duodenal ulcer.
(11) Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts were created by accident in 1899, when salesman Charlie Thompson tripped up, mixing up all the different sweets he was carrying.
(12) Six geographically diverse samples of liquorice root contained similar (22.2-32.3 mg g-1) glycyrrhizin contents.
(13) These findings seem to explain why sodium retention, hypokalaemia, and hypertension develop in subjects with congenital deficiency of 11 beta-OHSD and those in whom the enzyme has been inhibited by liquorice.
(14) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
(15) after liquorice ingestion) results in cortisol acting as a potent mineralocorticoid.
(16) No side effects of treatment were observed.Our study was not able to demonstrate any healing effect of the liquorice extract (Caved-S) on gastric ulcer.
(17) The patients were treated during two consecutive periods of four weeks each with either liquorice extract during the first period and placebo during the second or placebo during the first period and liquorice during the second.
(18) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
(19) When the activity of the enzyme is impaired (syndrome of apparent MC excess, liquorice or carbenoxolone administration), F acts as a MC and MC-hypertension with hypokalemia occurs.
(20) The dosage of the liquorice extract was 760 mg three times daily.