(1) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(2) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(3) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
(4) In the same way, using the anti-trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase serum, rocket immunoelectrophoresis analyses were able to show that the inducible apoenzyme is not regulated by the fnr gene product and that molybdate does not seem necessary for the synthesis or stabilisation of this enzyme.
(5) Despite emergency measures from Beijing officials designed to stabilise the markets and restore confidence in the economy, this week alone the Shanghai Composite Index fell more than 11%.
(6) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
(7) The complex is stabilised by hydrogen bonding, electrostatic and van der Waals interactions.
(8) It has also served as a built-in stabiliser of the economy during downturns.
(9) After greatly raised values in hypertensive emergency, these parameters showed a 27% decrease following IV bolus injection and during the subsequent intraoperative course they stabilised at standard levels.
(10) The plasma concentrations of labetalol were in the range 0.05 ot 0.8 microgram.cm-3 in five out of six dogs at the three lowest doses tested which is far below the values which could be expected to cause a membrane-stabilising effect.
(11) Protein aggregation is dependent on the concentration of background electrolyte since in the range 10-150 mM sodium cacodylate alternative stabilisation of dimeric and trimeric complexes was observed by both NMR and analytical ultracentrifugation.
(12) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(13) The OECD said the chancellor should allow in-built stabilising mechanisms to work to support demand even if this meant slippage in his plans.
(14) His other lesson is that intervention, a second resort not a first, should be political, followed by a period of stabilisation.
(15) Some degree of stabilisation is obtained upon reduction with sodium borohydride, probably resulting in a further reduced non-aromatic coenzyme-A thioester.
(16) We suggest that E. coli polymerase holoenzyme normally exists in at least two conformational states, one with a high affinity for rRNA promoters and another with a low affinity, and that T4 infection stabilises the low affinity form.
(17) Resetting of the escape rhythm usually followed an exponential curve until stabilisation after about 3 minutes.
(18) Also, fetal hyperinsulinism can be avoided by stabilising the diabetic condition as early as possible within the normal limits of glycemia.
(19) In vitro experiments showed that the clot could be stabilised by the addition of epsilon amino caproic acid (EACA).
(20) This is expected for a character which displays overall ambi-directional dominance if isolates with more extreme growth rates than those recovered in the population sample are eliminated by stabilising selection.
Tragacanth
Definition:
(n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the oral toxicity of tragacanth gum to B6C3F1 mice was concluded to be negligible.
(2) A plaque assay was developed for FMD virus that depended on washing MVPK-1 cells in serum-free medium before infection and excluding serum from 0.6% gum tragacanth overlay during plaque formation.
(3) Repeated oral administration of commonly used suspending media, gum arabic, gum tragacanth, methylcellulose, and carboxymethylcellulose-Na to rats caused uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in liver and heart mitochondria and partial inhibition of mixed function oxidases of liver endoplasmic reticulum, as measured by 2-biphenylhydroxylation and 4-biphenylhydroxylation.
(4) In the presence of trypsin and tragacanth gum, clear foci developed 1 day after infection.
(5) The ethanolic extract, and some of the gum preparations, particularly tragacanth and karaya, caused considerable footpad swelling when injected intradermally.
(6) It was found that these strains remain cell-associated after repeated cocultivations with Vero cells and produce plaques under fluid medium or tragacanth overlay.
(7) Tragacanth gum was administered at dietary levels of 0 (control), 1.25 and 5.0% to groups of 50 male and 50 female B6C3F1 mice for 96 wk after which all animals were maintained on a basal diet without tragacanth gum for a further 10 wk.
(8) To define the type of dietary fibre of fibre analogue with the greatest potential use in diabetic treatment, groups of four to six volunteers underwent 50-g glucose tolerance tests (GTT) with and without the addition of either guar, pectin, gum tragacanth, methylcellulose, wheat bran, or cholestyramine equivalent to 12 g fibre.
(9) Suckling mouse brain passage virus was adapted for growth in BHK-21 cells, and plaque assays were performed using a tragacanth gum overlay.
(10) Tragacanth and guar gum inhibited the activity to a greater extent than acacia, sodium alginate and carrageenin.
(11) The data presented may be useful for extending the current specifications for identity and purity, at present based solely on polysaccharide parameters, for gum tragacanth (E413).
(12) Six Iranian and seven Turkish samples of commercial gum tragacanth, and a sample of Turkish 'gum traganton', have been studied.
(13) Results from dialysis and fermentation predicted the action of wheat bran, pectin, guar, gum arabic, carboxymethylcellulose, gellan, tragacanth, xanthan, and karaya in humans and generated anomalous results for karaya and tragacanth.
(14) Many of the Bacteroides strains tested were also able to ferment a variety of plant polysaccharides, including amylose, dextran, pectin, gum tragacanth, gum guar, larch arabinogalactan, alginate, and laminarin.
(15) To investigate the nature of these gross lesions, tragacanth gum was fed to groups of 30 male mice at the dietary level of 5.0% for periods of up to 48 wk; 20 males served as controls.
(16) Wheat bran and gum tragacanth increase stool weight but have no effect on serum cholesterol or on hydrogen excretion.
(17) Interaction of the preservative with hydrophilic macromolecules and subsequent reduction in the availability of preservative appears to be the predominant mechanism by which tragacanth and guar gum reduce the activity of methyl-p-hydroxybenzoate.
(18) The gums studied were tragacanth, karaya, ghatti, carob, guar, arabic and xanthan gum.
(19) The effect of talc, magnesium stearate, stearic acid, and Acrawax C, which are commonly used as lubricants, on the dry-binding efficiency of tragacanth, polyethylene glycol 4000, polyvinylpyrrolidone, and mannitol were investigated.
(20) Gum tragacanth, normal saline, ethylene glycol, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) mixed 1:1 with normal saline, sesame oil, and propylene glycol were found to be suitable injection vehicles, whereas ethanol, dissolved in normal saline in concentrations as low as 0.5% was found unsuitable.