(n.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dehydrated extract of nopal (Opuntia ficus-indica Mill) did not show acute hypoglycemic effect, although could attenuate postprandial hyperglycemia.
(2) The purpose of this work is to describe effects produced by directly liquified nopal and extracts from this plant in healthy and pancreatectomized rabbits.
(3) Mangoes fall off the trees at Hotel Oasis there, and they do excellent nopales , a prickly pear salad.
(4) Acute hypoglycemic effect of nopal was observed in patients with NIDDM but not in healthy subjects, thus the mechanisms of this effect differs from current hypoglycemic agents.
(5) El Tri travelled with the ingredients for pozole , along with chilli peppers, chipotle chillies and nopales – cacti.
(6) Group one (16 patients) ingested 500 g of broiled nopal stems.
(7) Serum glucose and insulin levels were measured at 0, 60, 120 and 180 minutes after nopal ingestion.
(8) To assess if the acute hypoglycemic effect of nopal which occurs in diabetic patients also appears in healthy individuals, 500 g of nopal stems (O. streptacantha Lem.)
(9) Three tests were performed on group 3 (6 patients): one with nopal, a second with water, and a third with ingestion of 500 g broiled squash.
(10) To assess if a dehydrated extract of nopal stems retains the effect on glycemia of the entire nopal stems two experiments were performed.
(11) Nopal extract did not reduce fasting glycemia in diabetic subjects.
(12) In healthy individuals glycemia did not change with nopal, while cholesterol and triglycerides decreased (P < 0.01 vs. placebo).
(13) OGTT with previous intake of 30 nopal or placebo capsules was performed in ten healthy individuals.
(14) To investigate the increase of glycemia due to the ingestion of usual food in Mexico, portions with 50 g of carbohydrate form white corn tortilla, yellow corn tortilla, spaghetti, rice, potatoes, beans brown and black, nopal (prickle pear cactus) and peanuts, compared with white bread, were given to 21 healthy and 27 non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects.
(15) To assess the hypoglycemic effect of the nopal Opuntia streptacantha Lemaire (O. streptacantha Lem.
(16) To find out if commercial capsules with dried nopal (prickle-pear cactus, Opuntia ficus indica may have a role in the management of diabetes mellitus, three experiments were performed: 30 capsules where given in fasting condition to 10 diabetic subjects and serum glucose was measured through out 3 hours; a control test was performed with 30 placebo capsules.
(17) In a crossover and single blinded study 14 diabetic patients withdrew the oral hypoglycemic treatment and received 10 nopal or placebo capsules t.i.d.
Opal
Definition:
(n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several suppressors (suhD) that can specifically suppress the temperature-sensitive opal rpoH11 mutation of Escherichia coli K-12 have been isolated and characterized.
(2) Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate amber, ochre and opal suppressors from cloned Arabidopsis and Nicotiana tRNA(Tyr) genes.
(3) The presence of 5' homologies flanking only the transcribed genes and not the pseudogenes suggests that these regions may be regulatory control elements specifically involved in the expression of the eukaryotic opal suppressor gene.
(4) The nonsense mutants of S. pombe have been classified according to their suppressibility by defined opal and ochre suppressors into a class of efficiently suppressed opal and a class of inefficiency suppressed ochre mutants.
(5) The opal suppressor form shows moderate suppressor activity when the gene is introduced on this vector, however, the ochre suppressor form exhibits no detectable biological activity regardless of gene copy number.
(6) The rabbit genome encodes an opal suppressor tRNA gene.
(7) Using such an assay, we provide the first direct evidence that an opal suppressor tRNA gene is functional in mammalian cells.
(8) The growth patterns of nonsense mutants of RNA (GA and f2) and DNA (lambda and T4) phages suggested that KO1 carried an amber, but not ochre or opal suppressors.
(9) Opal suppressor tRNA did not accept any selenocysteine and phosphoseryl-tRNA did not change to selenocysteyl-tRNA.
(10) We report here the construction of a detailed genetic and physical map of these genes, the neighboring gene 4 and a portion of gene 10, in which 289 conditional lethal amber, opal, temperature sensitive and cold sensitive mutations are mapped into 44 small (several hundred base pair) intervals of known sequence.
(11) More than half a million people have joined the Open Air Laboratories (Opal) citizen science project, designed to get people outdoors and involved in scientific research, since its launch in 2007.
(12) We studied the above mechanisms using opal suppressor tRNA in mammals.
(13) Two mutations, Cys-318 to an opal termination codon and Cys-319 to Ser-319, were created in vitro and substituted in the chromosome in place of the normal RAS2 allele.
(14) The important role of G73 in tryptophan identity was confirmed using mutants of an opal suppressor derivative of tRNA(Trp).
(15) This study has been undertaken in order to elucidate the mechanisms of incorporation of Se into glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx), in which selenocysteine corresponds to the opal termination codon UGA on the mRNA.
(16) An opal suppressor of tRNA(Gln) (su+2UGA) containing C35 (anticodon UCA) was isolated by genetic selection and mutagenesis.
(17) A proposal of the role of animal opal suppressor phosphoseryl (Ps)-tRNA is that Ps-tRNA plays a role as an intermediate in the metabolic pathway from 3-phosphoglycerate to glycine.
(18) Suppressor [32P]phosphoseryl-tRNA, prepared using bovine seryl-tRNA synthetase and ATP:seryl-tRNA phosphotransferase, was mixed with rabbit reticulocyte lysates containing endogenous hemoglobin mRNA having the termination codon UGA (opal).
(19) OPAL concept (Old People With Active Life styles) recommends an individualized establishment of therapy instead of standard techniques to try the minimal trouble to a good quality of life for the patient.
(20) "It is so well understood, so embedded in the psyche, that people make jokes about Opal Fruits and Jammy Dodgers being one of your five a day.