(1) When highly purified preparations of the anticoagulant activity from the Tike-Uba tree were examined in specific blood coagulation enzyme assays utilizing chromogenic substrates, the highest inhibitory potency was found versus thrombin, followed by factor Xa.
(2) The arrow poison was prepared from the bark of a tree, known locally as Tike-Uba.
(3) Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents".
Wike
Definition:
(n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker.