(n.) Any one of several plants of different genera and species, most of which are (or were formerly) reputed to be efficacious as remedies for the bites of serpents; also, the roots of any of these.
Example Sentences:
(1) In view of the importance of white snakeroot in the history of the United States and the ongoing problems today, it would be most unfortunate if studies were not pursued expeditiously to identify the toxicant(s) responsible, and to understand the mechanism(s) of action and toxicity thresholds.
(2) Horses and goats are particularly sensitive to white snakeroot poisoning.
(3) Resurgence of livestock production on small farm units, and utilization of fresh raw milk may result in milk sickness; if the animals have white snakeroot exposure.
(4) In other animals and humans the toxicity thresholds of white snakeroot are not known, and that until responsible toxic principles are identified and their fate in animals and milk studied, such an assessment will not be possible.
(5) White snakeroot and rayless goldenrod pose a public health risk to individuals who might drink milk from a goat or cow grazing toxic amounts of these weeds.
(6) The toxic component(s) in white snakeroot has not been identified.
(7) Among plant toxicants excreted in milk is tremetol or tremetone, the toxin in white snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum) and rayless goldenrod (Haplopappus heterophyllus).
(8) Toxic products in white snakeroot were inactive in cell culture systems without microsomal activation.
(9) Components of white snakeroot, a plant toxic to livestock and human beings, were activated by Aroclor 1254-induced rat liver microsomes.
(10) This activation system revealed that at least 2 fractions of white snakeroot were metabolically activated to cytotoxic agents.
(11) Components of white snakeroot that are toxic after microsomal activation have been isolated.
(12) The autocatalytic inactivator of cytochrome P-450, 1-aminobenzotriazole, inhibited activation of white snakeroot constituents by rat liver microsomes.
(13) White snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum Houtt) has been known to cause trembles in animals and milk sickness in humans since the American Revolution.
Sunflower
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(2) Wistar rats were fed for three generations with a semisynthetic diet containing either 1.5% sunflower oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 6 mg% of C18:3n-3) or 1.9% soya oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 130 mg% of C18:3n-3).
(3) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(4) Safety evaluations of sunflower protein isolates (SPI) obtained by various processes were performed in subchronic (90-day) feeding studies using male and female rats as experimental animals.
(5) Very high migration values are obtained for sunflower oil, Fettsimulans HB 307 or 50% ethanol.
(6) Percent apparent digestibilities for DM, NDF, and N for corn and corn-sunflower were similar and greater than for sunflower: DM (69.6, 68.2, 57.4); NDF (68.1, 61.5, 51.6); and N (66.3, 66.5, 63.6).
(7) We have isolated and characterized genes encoding the sunflower 11S globulin seed storage proteins, collectively termed helianthinin.
(8) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(9) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(10) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(11) The method of mebendazole administration with sunflower oil, elaborated by the authors, serves to this purpose: drug concentration exceeding the minimal effective one was attained in 86% patients treated with mebendazole and sunflower oil and only in 40% patients treated with the drug alone.
(12) The maximum accumulation of fraction 1 was observed in yeast medium with sunflower-seed protein.
(13) Sowing sunflower seeds is like scattering happiness over the soil; it is a gesture in optimism.
(14) Linoleic enriched BAT (of animals born to females kept on a sunflower oil diet) seemed to be in a healthy physiological state at birth, perhaps due to rapid lipid renewal and synthesis in their membranes.
(15) Diets supplemented with high levels of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids supplied by addition of sheep kidney fat or sunflower seed oil, respectively, were fed to rats with or without dietary cholesterol.
(16) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
(17) Similarly, in sunflower and rolled oat, the TD values of lysine (81-83) were lower than the TD values of total nitrogen (90-91).
(18) The transport of [3H]norepinephrine into chopped cerebral cortex of neonates was changed by feeding pregnant rats with semisynthetic diets enriched in saturated fat (coconut oil) as compared to polyunsaturated fat (sunflower oil).
(19) The fractional and molar rates of LCAT were higher after sunflower and peanut oil diets and decreased significantly after LEAR oil and milk fat diets.
(20) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.