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Extracts

Extract

(Science: pharmacology) a concentrated preparation of a vegetable or animal drug obtained by removing the active constituents therefrom with a suitable menstruum, evaporating all or nearly all the solvent and adjusting the residual mass or powder to a prescribed standard. Extracts are prepared in three forms, semiliquid or of syrupy consistency, pilular or solid and as dry powder.

Origin: L. Extractum


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... teeth that would be located in the mouth and spikes located all over the plant. May I suggest limiting the consuption of certain plant or fungal extracts...

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by canalon
Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:05 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Urgent question
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... larger in tact fragments present. I think that this might have something to do with whats going on. I am interested in Epicenters kit because it extracts the DNA without any grinding of the sample. I hope to get much larger fragments in my genomic DNA and that this will give me the PCR product ...

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by tomato
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Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... out rate in the trials and in the follow-up trials (not a loyal lifestlye choice perhaps?). Also the cranberry fruit itself contains polyphenolic extracts that inhibit the growth and proliferation of breast, colon, prostate, lung, and other tumor cells, as do flavonols, proanthocyanidin oligomers, ...

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by kolean
Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:03 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Re: Competitive/Non competitive inhibitors

... if you can get annihilation that way. You won’t be able to characterize them actual well, but you may still be able to see that if you adapt the extracts in the aforementioned way, you get inhibition of anylase activity, or that altered types of seeds, etc. able the aforementioned way accord ...

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by rsreign
Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:45 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Competitive/Non competitive inhibitors
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Cell wall lysis

... to harm the blue pigments, and the solution becomes noticeably more yellow/green. Exposing the sample to a low pH solution (H2O and citric acid) extracts a small amount of sky-blue color, and nothing else. A 20% alcohol solution seems to be retaining good color, but I think it may just be keeping ...

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by PoB
Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:32 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Cell wall lysis
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