(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.
Uranin
Definition:
(n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.
Example Sentences:
(1) In experiments on irradiated (10 Gy) mice a study was made of the morphological changes in the small intestine mucosa and in its functional status estimated by absorption of stain uranine.
(2) A mixture of a cell culture-adapted strain (C-486) of calf rotavirus and poliovirus type 1 (Sabin) was prepared in tryptose phosphate broth containing 0.1% uranine (physical tracer) and antifoam at a final concentration of 0.001%.
(3) At an early stage of the disease (6-24 hours) insufficient was uranin fluorescence in blood plasma, but more informative were the changes in adhesive properties of leukocytes the dynamics of lymphocytes (lymphopenia), reticulocytes (reticulocytopenia) and shifts in reticulograms (increased per cent of juvenile forms).
(4) In the experiments performed on kidneys of 5 species of marine Teleostei, morphological peculiarities in secretion of 8 fluorescent organic acids (uranin, primulin, tripaphlavin, erythrosin etc.)
(5) Laboratory tests with aerosolized spores and animal room tests with uranine dye indicate the effectiveness of a prototype bedding disposal cabinet in reducing airborne contamination generated by cage cleaning procedures.
(6) The strongest protection was elicited with acriflavine-, auramine O-, eosin Y-, neutral red-, night blue-, patent blue V-, thymol blue-, uranin-, and xylene cyanol FF-treated vaccines.
(7) This technique was assessed using the fluorescent exogenous agent uranin (fluorescein sodium).
(8) A multiple regression equation was developed from data obtained with uranine dye to define the aerosol concentration of the dye in the system as a function of the concentration of the dye in the spray fluid and the rate at which it was aerosolized.
(9) The authors have studied the influence of rose bengal, and, by comparison, of uranin, on choleresis in the rabbit.
(10) Intensification of lumininescence by the addition of uranin, eosin, tetrachlorfluorescein and erythrozan was found.
(11) It is assumed that fluorescein and uranin transports are carried out by producing a four-fold transporting complex (a carrier+a substratum+2Na+; in the case of fluorescein 2Na+ appear from the medium, whereas in the case of uranin only one Na+ from the medium is used.
(12) Aerosol deposited in the "T" and elbow, endotracheal tube, large airway model, and collection bag was quantitated separately using 0.1% uranine as a tracer.
(13) The process of luminescence intensification with the addition of uranine was thoroughly studied (kinetic regularities, spectra, concentration relationships).
(14) Administration of furosemide before disconnection of the renal circulation is accompanied by an increase of uranine transport from the nephron lumen to the blood as compared with the control.
(15) The KmNa value for fluorescein transport is twice as much as that for uranin transport.
(16) From the fact that uranine had the lower acute toxicity than halogens substituted compounds and the toxicities of these 4 dyes increased through irradiation, it was assumed that halogen atoms in dyes might be responsible for these strong acute toxicities to fish.
(17) This success rate was comparable to those for Evans blue, uranin or neutral red in this test system.
(18) The instrument was calibrated using uranine test aerosols, photofluorescence and optical microscopy techniques.
(19) It has been established in acute experiments on rats that furosemide reduces the supply of uranine from the lumen of renal tubules to the interstitial space and systemic blood flow.
(20) All the substances studied accumulate in the cell and only some of them (uranin, primulin, titanic yellow, etc.)