(n.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) it is shown that nuclear extracts from young radish leaves (NER) contain a protein fraction which binds to specific sequences in the radish ES.
(2) Three root crops (radishes, carrots, and onions) were grown in two soils, each treated with a mixture of FireMaster BP-6 (PBB) and 14C-PBB to achieve final concentrations of 100 ppm and 100 ppb.
(3) Weak Raman scattering found with horse radish peroxidase I is consistant with a porphyrin eta-cation radical formulation.
(4) In order to analyse the cruciferin gene family in radish a cDNA library was screened either with heterologous rapeseed probes or by differential screening and sequencing.
(5) Retrograde tracing, with either horse-radish peroxidase or rhodamine-labelled microspheres, indicated a significant increase in the number of neurons projecting to the rostral striatum from the dorsal raphe nucleus of lesioned animals.
(6) The absorption spectra of fluram, lysozyme, horse-radish peroxidase, and mixtures of lysozyme + fluram and peroxidase + fluram and the fluorescence and fluorescence excitation spectra of the mixtures in 0.05 M phosphate buffer with 1 per cent dioxane are determined.
(7) (Chinese J Microbiol Immunol 1987; 20: 269-278) Horse-radish peroxidase-conjugated to tetanus toxoid monoclonal antibody was involved in the new kit, and tetanus hybridoma clones were prepared by this laboratory.
(8) Afferent projections to the functionally identified mesencephalic locomotor region were studied in cat by means of the horse-radish peroxidase technique.
(9) Horse radish peroxidase (HRP; EC 1, 11, 1, 7) was used as a labeled enzyme and 3, 3', 5, 5'-tetramethylbenzidine was used as a substrate.
(10) After adjusting for known etiological factors, risks decreased with increasing intake of fruits, particularly oranges and tangerines, and some vegetables, including dark yellow vegetables and Chinese white radish.
(11) We purified and characterized a membrane-associated enzyme system from radish (Raphanus sativus L.) that is capable of converting acetyl-CoA into 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA).
(12) The normal and Ogura radish atpA loci are virtually identical for 3.8 kb, including a 507 codon open reading frame whose product is approximately 92% identical to other plant ATPA polypeptides.
(13) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(14) These results provide evidence that radish plasma membranes contain an NAD(P)H-ferricyanide or cytochrome c oxidoreductase and an NAD(P)H oxidase, active only at pH 4.5-5.0, able to induce the formation of anion superoxide, that is then converted to hydrogen peroxide.
(15) In juvenile and adult Xenopus laevis, in adult Bufo marinus and Rana esculenta frogs retino-retinal projections were traced by filling the central stump of one optic nerve, cut 2-3 mm from the eye, with horse-radish peroxidase (HRP) or cobaltic-lysine complex (CLC).
(16) Horse-radish peroxidase injected into the femoral vein of intact rats, or infused at 30 cm H2o pressure into the main pancreatic duct of intact dogs, entered easily the interstitial spaces surrounding acini and acinar cells.
(17) SDS-electrophoresis showed distinct polypeptide patterns between the horse-radish leaves and crown galls, but the tumor characteristic protein bands failed to be identified.
(18) Nitrocellulose membrane strips containing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis-resolved proteins of chlamydial elementary bodies (EB) were reacted with the B-CMP extract, followed by addition of streptavidin-conjugated horse radish peroxidase.
(19) Binding takes place if the IgM contained anti-HBc and was demonstrated by the aid of a conjugate made from anti-HBc IgG and horse radish peroxidase.
(20) The conditions for the sorption of the antigen on polystyrene test tubes and for binding 125I-or horse radish peroxidase-labeled protein A preparations with antibodies have been determined, and the method has been approved in tests made on sera and liquor obtained from donors and tick-borne encephalitis patients.
Root
Definition:
(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
(n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
(n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
(n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
(n.) The lowest place, position, or part.
(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
(v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
(v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.
(v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
(v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
Example Sentences:
(1) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(2) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(3) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(4) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(5) But the roots of Ukip support in working-class areas are also cultural.
(6) The Ca2+ channel current recorded under identical conditions in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones was less sensitive to blockade by PCP (IC50, 90 microM).
(7) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(8) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(9) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(10) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(11) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(12) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(13) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(14) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(15) The ventral root dissection technique was used to obtain contractile and electromyogram (e.m.g.)
(16) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(17) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(18) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(19) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(20) Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons cultured from neonatal rats contained high concentrations of protein kinase C (PKC).