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Wistaria
Definition:
(n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lectins from Wistaria floribunda, Phaseolus lunatus (D-GalNAc), Arachis hypogaea (D-Gal) and Triticum vulgaris (D-GlcNAc) were selective for the infective forms (both amastigotes and promastigotes), not reacting with the non-infective ones.
(2) Two new triterpenoid saponins, wistariasaponins D [1] amd G [2], and the known saponin dehydrosoyasaponin I [3] were isolated from the knots of Wistaria brachybotrys.
(3) The following 125I-lectins were used: Concanavalin-A (specific for glucose and mannose), wheat germ agglutinin (specific for N-acetylglucosamine), castor bean agglutinin (specific for galactose), Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (specific for N-acetylgalactosamine), and soybean agglutinin (specific for N-acetyl-galactosamine).
(4) This paper describes a less known--antagonistic (effector-target)--lymphocyte-monocyte interaction that came into existence in a leukocyte culture after the commencement of cellular response to concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin and Wistaria floribunda mitogen.
(5) Of these, lectin from Sojanum tuberosum (STA) reacted with PGC in both avian species, whereas lectin from Wistaria floribunda (WFA) and Griffonia simplicifolia II (GS-II) reacted in the quail and the chick, respectively.
(6) Sugar residues detected by GOCTS were explored by employing four species of lectins, which were peanut and Allomyrina dichotoma agglutinins for beta-galactose and Vicia villosa and Wistaria floribunda agglutinins for beta-N-acetylgalactosamine.
(7) Only half as much Wistaria floribunda agglutinin was bound to transformed cells when they had been dispersed with EDTA.
(8) Black locust (Robinia pseudo-Acacia), bush clover (Lespedeza bicolor), wistaria (Wistaria floribunda) and Japanese knotgrass (Reynoutria japonica) were used for the present experiment.
(9) The cells were then cultured for 72 h in the presence of phytohemagglutinin (PHA), concanavalin A (Con A), Wistaria floribunda (WFA) or Lens culinaris (LcH-A) extracts.
(10) Labeling of epimastigotes by Ricinus communis I and Wistaria floribunda lectins showed that surface receptors for these lectins were absent from the cytostome.
(11) Excellent inhibition was obtained in the Bauhinia purpurea, Arachis hypogaea, Iberis amara, and Wistaria floribunda systems, and weak inhibition against the Ricinus communis and Glycine max lectins.
(12) We found a new guanidinooxyamine in Wistaria floribunda seeds and seedlings of the sword bean, Canavalia gladiata.
(13) Eight plant lectins--from Canavalia ensiformis, Lens culinaris, Triticum vulgare (wheat germ), types E4 and L4 from Phaseolus vulgaris, types I and II from Ricinus communis, and Wistaria floribunda--were found to bind to normal and pathologically altered nerves.
(14) Cells for a clone, SS7, transformed by bovine adenovirus type-3, were found to bind 5 to 6 times more Wistaria floribunda agglutinin than the normal counterpart cells (clone C31, from C3H mouse kidney).
(15) Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA), Sophora japonica agglutinin (SJA) and Maclura pomifera lectin (MPL) were employed as immunofluorescent and leucoagglutinating reagents to study murine lymphocytes.
(16) Seven plant lectins, Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Griffonia simplicifolia agglutinin (GSA, isolectin A4), Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA), soybean (Glycine max) agglutinin (SBA), Salvia sclarea agglutinin (SSA), Vicia villosa agglutinin (VVA, isolectin B4) and Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA), known to be specific for N-acetyl-D-galactosamine-(GalNAc) bearing glycoconjugates, have been compared by the binding of their radiolabelled derivatives, to eight well-characterized synthetic oligosaccharides immobilized via a spacer on an inert silica matrix (Synsorb).
(17) Binding of L cell interferon to lectins, Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) and concanavalin A (Con A) was studied by affinity chromatography.
(18) Afromosin [1] and soyasaponin I [2] isolated from Wistaria brachybotrys exhibited remarkable inhibitory effects on mouse skin tumor promotion, and afromosin also exhibited a significant inhibitory effect on pulmonary tumor promotion.
(19) The expression of receptors for N-acetylgalactosamine-recognizing lectins, namely Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA), Sophora japonica agglutinin (SJA), Bauhinia purpurea agglutinin (BPA), Vicia villosa agglutinin (VVA), and Wistaria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) was studied in early mouse embryos and teratocarcinoma cells.
(20) While the stocks of T. cruzi and T. rangeli showed common agglutination reactions with the lectins of Canavalia ensiformis and Pisum sativum, only the stocks of T. cruzi were additionally agglutinated by Ricinus communis-120, Glycine maxima, Helix pomatia, Axinella polypoides, Bandeiraea simplicifolia, Bauhinia purpurea, Wistaria floribunda, Abrus precatorius, Aaptos papillata II, Limax flavus and Arachis hypogaea.