(n.) A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion the effect of taxine on the heart results from its ICa and INa inhibiting properties similar to those of other antiarrhythmic drugs.
(2) Oxidant production was used as an indicator of inflammatory cell reactions and was measured by luminol-amplified chemiluminescence after treatment with inflammatory activators including bacteria, the neutrophil taxin formyl-Met-Leu-Phe, the Ca2+ ionophore A23187, the detergent saponin, and the tumor promoter phorbol ester.
(3) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
(4) The effects of the sulfate salt of taxine, the alkaloid mixture of the yew (Taxus baccata L.), on membrane currents of enzymatically isolated single ventricular cells of guinea pig were studied under current- or voltage clamp conditions.
(5) The acute toxicity of taxine isolated from leaves of yew trees was determined in mice and rats.
(6) Under the influence of taxine, inconsistent effects were observed on the potassium outward current.
(7) Recovery from the effects of taxine is partially possible.
(8) A reliable and recognized method for the detection of taxins is required.
(9) A case of fatal taxine poisoning from the ingestion of yew leaves by a young college man is reported.
(10) A synergism of the toxic effects of taxine++ B, digitalis glycosides and hypokalemia is considered very likely.
Yew
Definition:
(v. i.) See Yaw.
(n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
(n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
(n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
(a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
(2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
(4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
(5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
(6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
(8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
(10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
(11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
(12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
(13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
(14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
(15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
(16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
(17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
(18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
(19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
(20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.