(n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
(n.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most stable differential signs of enterococci are: growth in the medium at pH 10.2, growth in broth containing 40% bile, citrate utilization, resistance to 0,05% potassium tellurite, 2, 3, 5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) reduction, the staining of colonies (plaques) on a medium with manganese, iron and zinc salts, glycerine fermentation under anaerobic conditions, mannite fermentation, the presence of hemolysin, of the proteolytic enzyme, and mobility.
(2) Mitochondria in the presence of cytochrme c increased endogenous respiration essentially after the introduction of mannit into the polarographic cell.
(3) From the pharingeal mucus of many carriers were isolated 155 strains of staphylococci ascribed, by anaerobic fermentation of glucose and mannite, to the groups St. aureus, St. epidermidis and Micrococcus.
(4) In the group with mannite application no change in serum creatinine was observed, whereas in the other group a minute increase of serum creatinine was seen.
(5) Functional properties of rat brain mitochondria were different in Krebs-Ringer solution as compared to these in the media with mannit.
(6) The colonies of this clearly identified species were characterized by a granular surface resembling frosted glass, had attached to them a shining bubble, and were seen to split mannite and sorbite in the absence of conversion of glycerol.
(7) None of the patients in the mannite group had hepatic encephalopathy stage III or IV, whereas 75% of the patients without mannite showed clinical signs of stage III or IV.
(8) The carotid chemoreceptors of narcotized, vagotomized and spontaneously breathing hydropenic cats in hypertonic mannite diuresis were stimulated by perfusion with venous blood penic cats in hypertonic mannite diuresis were stimulated by perfusion with venous blood for 70 min.
(9) It is concluded that mannit metabolised by mitochondria as other non-cell compounds, must not be in the media of incubation of mitochondria, while studying the oxidative phosphorylation mechanism.
(10) The strains of isolated staphylococci were with the test of the mannite, coagulase and hemolysins alpha and beta classified as 170 pathogens (12.37 per cent), 511 partially pathogens (37.19 per cent) and 693 non pathogens (50.44 per cent).
(11) Prostaglandins formed in the kidneys under the influence of mannit are involved in the mechanism of dilatation of the vessels of the cortical layer but do not play the significant role in the formation of its tubular effect.
(12) MR(SA)2 medium contained modified Müller-Hinton agar supplemented with 75 g of NaCl, 10 g of mannit, 20 mg of bromcresol purple, 20 g of egg-yolk, 4 mg of oxacillin, and 12.5 mg of ceftisoxime per 1,000 ml.
(13) This microorganism incertae sedis resembles from the biochemical aspect (oxidase+, mannite-, dextrose+ with gas) the species Pasteurella aerogenes; contrary to the latter it does not break down urea and differs also as regards the morphology of colonies, which on blood agar are coarser; it also has a higher content of G + C in DNA than Pasteurella.
(14) Each strain was investigated for: pigment, coagulase, hemolysis (alpha-toxin), phosphatase and penicillinase production and mannite fermentation.
(15) Microheterogeneity of human serum albumin was studied by isoelectric focussing in ampholines and the borax-borate buffer-mannite system within the pH range 4.0--6.0 and by fractional precipitation in 3 M KCl.
(16) Since 1983 we perform a whole gut irrigation with mannite for cleansing the bowel via naso-gastric tube.
(17) The specific features of the effect of mannite, furosemide, sorbitol, dexamethasone, and thiopental sodium on brain edema and swelling were studied in the clinic under control of impedancemetry in patients with craniocerebral trauma of various severity and edema and swelling of different degree of manifestation.
(18) A variety of biological properties and signs characteristic of pathogenic staphylococci (hemolytic activity, anaerobic splitting of mannite, the presence of phosphatase, lysozyme, protease, alpha-toxin, fibrinolysin) were noted.
(19) Mannit was shown to increase the blood flow in the external, middle and internal zone of the renal cortex in anesthetized rats but exerts no effect on the blood supply to the external zone of the medullary layer.
(20) The detected changes in the indices of the ingestive and digestive function of neutrophils could be interpreted as a compensatory reaction of the organism in response to the action of chemical agents, whereas reduction of lysozyme content and the appearance in the microbial pattern of deep dermal layers of mannite-splitting and hemolytic froms of microbes pointed to the presence of the first unfavourable shifts in humoral and barrier immunity factors.
Mannitol
Definition:
(n.) The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(2) Seven of 12 who received mannitol responded with a diuresis.
(3) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(4) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
(5) The free radical scavengers mannitol, thiourea, benzoate, and 4-methylmercapto-2-oxobutyrate protected either native cells exposed to H2O2 or pretreated hepatocytes exposed to H2O2 and given ferric or ferrous iron.
(6) D-Mannitol has not so far been known as a major product of sugar metabolism by yeasts.
(7) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
(9) In either the presence or the absence of hemoglobin, it was commonly observed that the enzyme inactivation, which was maximal at pH 10, was significantly protected by tocopherol, but neither by mannitol nor ethanol, and that the inclusion of arachidonic acid or linoleic acid prevented the enzyme inactivation.
(10) The oxygen-free radical scavengers thiourea, mannitol and catalase prevented toxicity mediated by ferrous ammoniumsulphate but not by ferrous ascorbate (molar ratio of 1:20).
(11) The population of correctly oriented EII molecules was monitored by measuring active uptake of mannitol with internal phosphoenolpyruvate, EI, and HPr.
(12) Procedures are described for the preparation of two disaccharides, 4-O-alpha-L-iduronosyl-2,5-anhydro[3H]mannitol and 3-O-alpha-L-iduronosyl-2,5-anhydro[3H]-talitol, from heparin and dermatan sulfate, respectively.
(13) The effect of vinpocetine was compared to other antioxidants, to mannitol, vitamin E and dimethyl sulfoxide.
(14) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(15) In 2 groups of chemoreceptor-intact animals an osmotic diuresis was induced by intravenous infusion of an isoionic solution containing equivalent amounts of either sorbitol or mannitol.
(16) No protection from stimulation-associated impedance modifications was provided by the systemic administration of a material of high osmolarity (Mannitol) but the usual impedance decrease was not seen after systemic administration of a glucocorticoid.
(17) This mutant, similar to the mutants deficient in any of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes, does not allow appreciable alginate formation from glucose and gluconate, but allows alginate synthesis from mannitol and fructose.
(18) Variations of mannitol clearance parallel to those of bile flow indicate a canalicular origin of all changes.
(19) Instead, the latter experiment yielded 1,5-anhydro-2,3-di-O-methyl-D-mannitol, establishing the presence in the polysaccharide of terminal (nonreducing) D-mannopyranosyl groups bearing 4,6-O-(1-carboxyethylidene) substituents.
(20) Neither mannitol nor desferrioxamine, at the concentrations normally used in radical-generating systems, appears to react with HOCl.