What's the difference between salt and thiocyanate?

Salt


Definition:

  • (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
  • (n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
  • (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
  • (n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
  • (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
  • (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
  • (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
  • (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
  • (n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
  • (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
  • (n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  • (n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
  • (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  • (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
  • (n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
  • (3) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
  • (4) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (5) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (6) An investigation of the constitutive ions of salts revealed that their effects were additive only in the case of salts that have no specific binding capability.
  • (7) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
  • (8) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (9) In contrast to this, adrenalectomy decreased ANP levels markedly in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis and preoptic periventricular nucleus, which are reportedly involved in the central regulation of salt and water homeostasis.
  • (10) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (11) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
  • (12) Mixed micelles of bile salt and phospholipids inhibit the lipase-colipase-catalysed hydrolysis of triacylglycerols.
  • (13) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (14) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
  • (15) If salt fluoridation could also be generalized, caries levels could be reduced to a fraction of their initial values.
  • (16) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
  • (17) The strain was resistant to bile salts in TCBS medium and demonstrated several properties from a borderline of two Vibrio and Aeromonas species.
  • (18) Sodium taurolithocholate, a monohydroxy bile salt, does not affect the CD spectrum of CEase, and neither the di- or the monohydroxy bile salt activates the enzyme.
  • (19) It is therefore suggested that salt water adaptation triggers a cellular reorganization of the epithelium in such a way that leaky junctions (a low resistance pathway) appear at the apex of the chloride cells.
  • (20) Depending on the differential sensitivity of nuclear T-ag to extraction by salt and detergent, nuclear T-ag could be separated into nucleoplasmic T-ag, salt-sensitive T-ag and matrix-bound T-ag subclasses.

Thiocyanate


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Sulphocyanate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither were any significant differences found in blood carboxyhemoglobin nor serum thiocyanate.
  • (2) Conversion of the active-site thiol to thiocyanate makes it more difficult to inactivate the enzyme by treatment with Cd2+.
  • (3) Addition of potassium thiocyanate increased the number of high affinity [3H]AMPA binding sites without a change in affinity.
  • (4) Dogs fed on both gari diet and the rice + cyanide diet generated significant amounts of thiocyanate when compared with the controls, with the rice + cyanide group having higher plasma thiocyanate than the gari group (P less than 0.01).
  • (5) Pancreatic RNAs were isolated by the guanidinium thiocyanate method and layered onto CsCl cushion.
  • (6) The ability to generate the mononuclear cell chemotactic factor in serum that has been treated with potassium thiocyanate suggests that complement is not required.
  • (7) Thiocyanate and triazinyl chloride derivatives of fluorescent dyes have been employed for the covalent labeling of components of the connective tissue of the rabbit cornea.
  • (8) The toxic metabolizing degree was investigated by measuring plasma and urine thiocyanate levels.
  • (9) The availability of recombinant dihydrolipoamide transacetylase and the development of a rapid and reproducible enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for autoantibodies has allowed us to address the affinity of autoantibodies using thiocyanate inhibition.
  • (10) The urinary elimination of thiocyanate was investigated in male and female rats following the chronic administration of potassium cyanide.
  • (11) Laboratory investigation on a sample of this population demonstrated very high levels of serum and urinary thiocyanate, indicating a heavy exposure to cyanide.
  • (12) Granulocyte motility is, however, stimulated by ascorbic acid, potassium thiocyanate, levamisole, lithium, and metofenazate.
  • (13) After 16 weeks small amounts of peroxides were present in adipose tissue as determined by the thiocyanate method.
  • (14) Cation transport acceleration induced by the monovalent anions salicylate, benzoate, thiocyanate and 2,4-dinitrophenol were inhibited by dipyridamole, but not affected by SITS.
  • (15) The inhibitor decomposed by a mechanism involving H(+) ions and thiocyanate, the kinetics varying according to whether the inhibitor was in its acidic or basic form.
  • (16) Serum thiocyanate concentrations were measured by the ferric nitrate method.
  • (17) In a study on lung adenomas induced by the administration of a single intragastric dose of sodium thiocyanate, diethylnitrosamine, or its precursors to 15-day-old C57BLxC3H F1 mice the occurrence of crystalline inclusions in pulmonary parenchyma was noted.
  • (18) Human milk and saliva from newborn infants were analyzed for their content of lactoperoxidase and thiocyanate.
  • (19) At the translocation step the inhibition function was the same for the two inhibitors, and though similar at the formation step, they differ in that a Hill coefficient larger than unity is necessary in the thiocyanate inhibition function of the acid formation.
  • (20) Addition of the thiocyanate to the food may be beneficial through a nutritive effect.

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