(1) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
(2) Rhizomes of five identified plants of the Paris species, Liliaceae, and Rhizoma Paridis which are sold as a crude drug named "Zao Xiu," "Qiyeyizhihua" or other names in nine different markets in China were tested for their effects on cultured cardiomyocytes.
(3) The effects of 5 pregnane compounds isolated from the rhizomes of Mandevilla illustris were examined against bradykinin (BK), Lysyl-bradykinin (L-BK), acetylcholine (ACh) and oxytocin (Ot)-induced contractions in the isolated uteri of the rat.
(4) The bezoars were composed of vegatable material from either a tuber or rhizome.
(5) The methanol extract from Cnidium rhizome was fractionated with chloroform and water fractions.
(6) Two glucosides to enhance histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells were isolated from rhizomes of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) by column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and droplet counter-current chromatography, and named braxin A1 and A2.
(7) The rhizomes of Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb, are used in Indonesian folk medicine as cholagogues, aromatic stomachics, analgesics, a rheumatic remedy, etc.
(8) These data suggested that hoelen or peony root has a luteotropic effect but that atractylodes lanceae rhizome develops luteolysis.
(9) Six new steroidal saponins were isolated from the rhizomes of Smilax sieboldii.
(10) A new diglycoside, named dregeoside, was isolated from the rhizomes of Dregea sinensis var corrugata (Asclepiadaceae).
(11) Picroliv from root and rhizome of Picrorhiza kurroa showed reversal of low density lipoprotein (LDL) binding to paracetamol-induced damaged hepatocytes of rats.
(12) Alcoholic extracts of the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, rind of Citrus decumana, Desmodium triflorum, seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana, rhizomes of Kaempfaria galanga, Lippia nodiflora, tender leaves of Morinda citrifolia, rhizomes of Pollia serzogonian, Tephrosia purpuria and rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbeth showed good in vitro anthelmintic activity against human Ascaris lumbricoides.
(13) In this study, we analyzed the effective components of ginger rhizomes.
(14) Glycosides of uncommon aglucones, characterized by the Ph-C5-Ph skeleton, were isolated from the rhizomes of some African Hypoxis species.
(15) The treatment group treated with the sugar-coated tablets of Ginseng-Rhizome saponin (GRS) orally for two months, one tablet (50 mg per tablet), three times a day.
(16) Effects of extract from a herb, Cnidium rhizome (Senkyu), on isolated guinea pig atria were investigated pharmacologically and electrophysiologically.
(17) The rhizomes and roots of Curcuma are commonly used as Traditional Chinese Drugs.
(18) Groups of ewes were gavaged Veratrum californicum root-rhizome material over various 3 day periods during early gestation and their late-term fetuses examined.
(19) Four compounds isolated from the rhizomes of Drynaria propinqua collected in Sichuan have been identified.
(20) Results with Bupleurum kaoi, the species native to Taiwan, showed that the roots, rhizomes and aerial parts (leaves and stem) have greater quantities of saikosaponins than cultivated B. falcatum var.
Underground
Definition:
(n.) The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
(a.) Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.
(a.) Done or occurring out of sight; secret.
(adv.) Beneath the surface of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(2) 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.
(3) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(4) The logistics of maintaining and supplying underground clinics located in war-torn rural Afghanistan are presented.
(5) German intelligence services had also been keeping tabs on the rightwing radical scene that Zschäpe was a part of, but had lost track of her, along with Mundlos and Böhnhardt when they went underground.
(6) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
(7) That said, Turin’s creative scene is quite underground, so you have to seek out the best work.
(8) During the non-heating months of June, July and August of 1974, the total and respirable dust content at an underground station of the Newark City Subway System was determined.
(9) Part of the initial work has involved London Underground strengthening the structure of Temple tube station by the Thames so the north end of the bridge could sit on top of it.
(10) This may serve evidence for the absence of a common morphofunctional underground for this process.
(11) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(12) Excess risks of lung cancer were found in both underground workers (SMR 3.41; 95% CI 1.10-7.97; based on 5 deaths) and surface workers (SMR 1.87, 95% CI 1.18-2.81; based on 23 deaths).
(13) Chest X-ray and sputum cytology were used to detect lung cancer among subjects with an underground work history over 10 years and over 40 years of age.
(14) Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground , along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves.
(15) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
(16) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(17) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
(18) Transport for London said a planned tube drivers' strike on the London Underground service on Boxing Day is unlikely to cause serious extra disruption should it go ahead, although works are planned on many lines.
(19) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(20) It was concluded that the study did not provide support for the hypothesis that underground coalmining increases the risk of gastric cancer.