(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
(2) Thyroid hormone stimulation of Ca2+-ATPase was significantly decreased by stearic and oleic acids (10(-9)-10(-4) M), but also by elaidic, linoleic, palmitoleic and myristic acids.
(3) On the other hand, saturated fatty acid, stearic acid, affected neither aggregation nor cyclic AMP levels.
(4) Stearic acid (18:0) was significantly increased and eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 n-3) was slightly but significantly decreased in the patient's platelets.
(5) Whole cells were prelabeled for 2 h with [3H]arachidonic acid and [14C] stearic acid.
(6) At a given plasma concentration the entry rate of palmitic acid in pregnant sheep was greater than that of stearic acid in non-pregnant sheep.
(7) During incubation at 27 degrees C, B cells converted 3- to 5-fold more stearic acid (18:0) to 18:1 and showed a greater accumulation of monounsaturated phospholipid molecular species than did T cells.
(8) Stearic (18:0) and oleic (18:1) acids inhibited the colony-forming abilities of five human cancer cell lines and two non-neoplastic cell lines in a dose-dependent fashion.
(9) on the losses of membrane fatty acids (palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and arachidonic), the plasma membrane enzyme Na+, K+-ATPase, and the mitochondrial membrane enzyme Mg2+-ATPase, associated with global ischemia 24 hr after permanent unilateral occlusion of the carotid artery in Mongolian gerbils.
(10) Blood mixtures containing palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids were inactive.
(11) The relative percentages of total saturated fatty acids in 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine remained constant during liver development; however, the levels of both main saturated acids, palmitic and stearic acids, were reciprocally counterbalanced as the age of the embryo proceeded.
(12) Intermembranous translocation of membrane-bound radioactive lipids covalently labelled with 5-, 12, and 16-doxyl stearic acid was studied.
(13) Protection against CCl4 by dmPGE2, stearic, and oleic acids as well as high concentrations of ethanol may occur by altering the metabolism of CCl4.
(14) Mineral oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, a combination of aluminium monostearate, stearic acid and mineral oil as well as isotonic saline were infused intracisternally in cows during mid-lactation.
(15) The incorporation of newly formed stearic acid into microsomes was much higher than that into the added phosphatidylcholine dispersion.
(16) The organization of the lipid environment of the reconstituted cytochrome c oxidase, having a well-defined lipid composition, morphology, and a high specific activity, was examined by electron spin resonance spectroscopy using 2-(14-carboxytetradecyl)-2-ethyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-oxazolidinyloxyl (16-doxyl stearic acid) and 16-doxyl stearic acid - containing phosphatidylglycerol.
(17) The solubility of the first label,2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl, is correlated with the membrane fluidity which is measured using a stearic acid spin probe.
(18) In Chloroflexus, palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids predominated.
(19) By 24 h the percentage of palmitic and stearic acids had decreased to 45.6%.
(20) The results confirmed the earlier postulated differential utilization of palmitic and stearic acids in glycerolipid biosynthesis as well as supported the hypothesis of a precursor-product relationship between the oligoenoic and tetranoic species of both phosphatides.
Tallow
Definition:
(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(2) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(3) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(4) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(5) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(6) Five crossbred beef steers (329 kg) were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square experiment with 14-d periods to determine the effects of supplementation with high-nitrogen (N) feeds alone or mixed with tallow on sites of digestion with a basal diet of bermudagrass hay.
(7) The solutions included those containing Dymed (polyaminopropyl biguanide, 0.00005%), chlorhexidine (0.005%), Polyquad (0.001%), chlorhexidine (0.005%) and thimerosal (BP, 0.001%), thimerosal (BP, 0.002%) and Tris(2-hydroxyethyl) tallow ammonium chloride (0.013%), and a solution preserved with 115 ppm benzalkonium chloride (BAK).
(8) 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.
(9) Thus, dietary beef and soy protein isolate had similar effects on cholesterol concentrations in plasma, LDL, HDL and organs, whether pigs consumed soybean oil or beef tallow as a major fat source.
(10) Each group of rats were pair-fed a nutritional adequate liquid diet containing either corn oil (CF) or tallow (TF) as fat as well as protein and carbohydrate.
(11) The dietary fats employed in these studies included corn oil, Tower rapeseed oil (RSO), partially hydrogenated soybean oil (SBO), and tallow.
(12) Growing rats were fed a nonfat dry milk supplemented with two levels of soy-bean oil (SBO) and tallow (T) such that either 30% or 50% of total dietary calories came from fat.
(13) Furthermore, the lung hydroxyproline content in bleomycin-treated animals was less with the beef tallow diet compared with standard lab feed (p less than 0.05).
(14) Dietary cholesterol supplementation elevated the cholesterol concentration in liver in the order: linseed oil greater than beef tallow greater than fish oil (8.6-, 5.5-, 2.6-fold, respectively).
(15) Small White turkeys were fed 10% dietary rapeseed oil or animal tallow to 6, 12 or 18 weeks of age.
(16) The response to excess dietary vit A was not influenced by the type of dietary lipid (corn oil, tallow, or poultry oil).
(17) Rats were fed three different concentrations of dietary linoleate as beef tallow, hydrogenated vegetable fat, or corn oil.
(18) Feeding tallow or the SBSS:tallow blend improved (P less than .05) feed efficiency and estimated dietary NE compared to control.
(19) The increased intake of fat due to feeding tallow caused both increased fat metabolism and fat excretion as based on chromic oxide estimates of digestibility.
(20) At all levels of fat supplementation, the high linoleate safflower oil consistently resulted in a 50% lower rate of fatty acid biosynthesis than did comparable levels of tallow or palmitate.