(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.) 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.
Thiosulphate
Definition:
(n.) A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Active sites for thiosulphate are probably strictly connected with cell membranes.
(2) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(3) This effect may add to other factors decreasing sulphur availability in critically ill patients, and simultaneous administration of thiosulphate is therefore recommended to ensure a safe SNP treatment during and after coronary bypass operations.
(4) Some in vitro studies were performed to elucidate the action of S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) and thiosulphate on liver rhodanese, delta-amino-levulinic acid dehydratase (Al A-D) and cytochrome oxidase affected by cyanide in the experimental conditions.
(5) Different bacterial cell fractions of Thiobacillus neapolitanus were examined in order to localize the active sites for thiosulphate and sulphite oxidation.
(6) The depression of the maximum responses to orciprenaline was reduced by the presence of sodium thiosulphate.
(7) At normal body temperature, as well as during hypothermia in cases receiving thiosulphate, the cyanide levels rose slowly but significantly with the infusion rate.
(8) The rate of ATP synthesis is higher in extracts of the cells grown in the dark under autotrophic conditions than in extracts of the cells cultivated in the light under anaerobic conditions or in the dark in the presence of thiosulphate and glucose.
(9) (35)S disappeared less rapidly from thiosulphate with ((35)S.SO(3))(2-) as substrate than with (S.(35)SO(3))(2-).
(10) Survival time of mice with 1 LD50 SM applied dermally was increased by GN and HR to a greater extent than by vitamin E or sodium thiosulphate probably due to one or more of the analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antihepatotoxic, antihistaminic, mast cell stabilization, lipid peroxidation inhibitory and free radical scavenging actions of the flavonoids.
(11) One mol of the enzyme formed 10 mol of thiocyanate per s from thiosulphate and cyanide.
(12) Sodium thiosulphate (ST) added to SNP (12:1 molar ratio) had no effect on the depressor response to SNP.
(13) It was found that the addition of thiosulphate to the reaction medium avoids the formation of labelled side products and increases the yield considerably.
(14) It was found that hydrogen sulphide developed in reclaimed water due to microorganisms which in the presence of inorganic sulphur (sodium thiosulphate) acquired the capacity to produce hydrogen sulphide, although normally they are not sulphur reducing.
(15) Heterotrophic nitrification by another organism, a strain of "Pseudomonas denitrificans" has also been shown to be inhibited by thiosulphate in short term experiments and in the chemostat.
(16) Spectral and kinetic studies of the interaction of N-methylnicotinamide chloride and nicotinamide with the enzyme thiosulphate sulphurtransferase (thiosulphate: cyanide sulfurtransferase, EC 2.8.1.1) (also known as rhodanese) have been performed and compared with previous inhibition data obtained with N-1-(4-pyridyl)pyridinium chloride (NPP).
(17) However, neither thiosulphate nor sulphur amino acids enhanced thiocyanate excretion when they were infused together with cyanide; indeed, thiocyanate excretion decreased as the level of sulphur compound given was increased.
(18) Considerable random variation occurred in measurements of changes in extracellular fluid from thiosulphate disappearance but the results did reveal a significant fall of 1000-1500 ml.
(19) Amytal, atebrin, and rotenone inhibit oxygen uptake by the cells in the presence of sulphide but have no effect on their respiration in the presence of thiosulphate.
(20) Only mutants 22, 72, 73 (deficient in ability to oxidize thiosulphate) could grow and develop RuBisCO activity on methylammonium, and assimilate 14CO2 generated as a result of methylammonium metabolism.