The poison of the tritons is quite analogous to that of the toads; it contains a lecithin hydrolyzable by water with the formation of alanin, formic acid, and alpha-isocyanopropionic acid.
Lecithin is isolated from animal brain, or egg-yolk, and commercial lecithin is impure.
Huge quantities of patent medicines containing phosphates in the form of hypo-or glycerophosphates, and (or) lecithin are sold annually.
Both lecithin and iron decrease rapidly in the first weeks after birth.
Numerous processes have been devised for the preparation of lecithinfrom egg-yolk or animal tissue.
Pure lecithin is white, but the commercial preparations are yellowish-brown wax-like solids, which are not soluble in water but form milky emulsions which exhibit the myeline figures under the microscope.
Without Mercury” and “With Mercury” 52 Lecithin Preparations Omitted from N.
Why administer a few milligrams of a more or less decomposed lecithin when it is possible to give a far larger weight of a purer substance in the form of yolk of egg?
After filtering hot and concentrating the filtrate the lecithin is thrown down by cooling to a low temperature--10 C.
Commercial lecithin preparations are at best very impure substances; all are more or less altered from the original composition.
Glycerole of Lecithin Lecibrin Lecithin Solution Lecithol Neuro-Lecithin-Abbott and that the general article on “Lecithin Preparations” be transferred to the annual Council Reports as a matter of record.
There is not the slightest reliable evidence that commercial lecithin has any advantage over the lecithin contained in natural foods; the weight of probability is on the other side.
Red bone-marrow is supposed to stimulate the formation of red blood corpuscles; whatever action it may have in this direction is probably due largely to the iron and lecithin which it contains.
The fatty acid may be palmitic, oleic or stearic and various combinations are known to exist; for example, distearyl lecithin, stearyl palmityl lecithin and so on.
Several fatty acids can be present in lecithin from various sources: palmitic and oleic acid, besides the stearic acid which at first had been thought the only one involved.
This is expressed in his lecithin formula of 1918.
Enzyme B attacks this residue and splits off the remaining fatty acid group from it, enzyme C liberates only the choline from lecithin, and enzyme D openslecithin at the ester bond between glycerol and phosphoric acid.
For obtaining lecithin out of egg yolk and similar materials, it was essential to use it in fresh condition.
In this composition I supply nutritive cell-food for generating lecithin in exactly the same form in which it is found in a healthy, perfect nerve-cell.
In response to the chemical consumption of lecithin a new oil flows down the axis cylinders of the nerve fibrils, which are arranged like lamp wicks.
In other words I am able to produce special eggs for a given tissue degeneration as, for instance, haemoglobin eggs for degenerate blood; lecithin eggs for the nerves; calcareous eggs for the bones, and kaliated eggs for the muscle.
What is true in the case of iron and lecithin content of eggs produced by my method, is equally true with respect to their content of all the other essential mineral elements; they are all multiplied several times.
For the nerve material, pure lecithinor nerve fat is used, obtained from the yolks of fresh eggs.
The bile containslecithin in a partially oxidized form.
The glycerophosphoric acid radical is, to be sure, found in the lecithinof nervous tissues, but its source is not known.
Hence the formula for lecithin indicating the linkage as shown above is the correct one.
They have been seriously hampered by the difficulty of securing properly purified extracts of lecithin and similar lipoids.
Choline occurs alone in the seeds and fruits of many plants, sometimes as the free amine, but more often as a constituent of lecithin (see page 141).
The fatty acids in the lecithin molecule may be different in lecithins from different sources, just as they are different in fats from different sources.
In certain lupine seeds, the fatty acids present in the lecithin appear to be palmitic and stearic.
Both oleic acid and a solid fatty acid have been found in the hydrolysis products of lecithin from leguminous seeds.
The solution of lecithin employed for this purpose should be prepared by dissolving 1 gramme of lecithin in 100 grammes of pure methylic alcohol.
That the addition of lecithin to a neutral combination of venom + antivenomous serum does not set the venom free again, and that under these conditions no lecithide is formed.
The combination lecithin + venom possesses hæmolytic action, but is in no way neurotoxic.
The lecithin takes part in the reaction by combining with the venom to form a hæmolysing lecithide more resistant to heat than its two components, for it may be heated for several hours at a temperature of 100° C.
It was already known that lecithinis capable of combining with various albuminoid matters and with sugars to form lecithides.
In a large dose Cobra-venom no longer produces any effect upon the corpuscles of the horse, for example, even when the venom is added in presence of a great excess of lecithin or heated serum.
Lecithin in its natural state, or that which is normally found in serums which quicken venom, such as horse-serum, even when heated to 65° C.
Kyes that with either of these substances the mechanism of the hæmolytic action is the same, for the serum quickens the venom only through the agency of the free lecithin it contains.
Lecithin is a highly tonic and inexpensive food supplement that is underutilized by many people even though it is easily obtainable in healthfood stores.
Try to buy the kind of lecithin that has the highest phosphatidyl choline content because this substance is the second benefit of taking lecithin.
Taken persistently, lecithinpartially and slowly eliminates existing cholesterol deposits from the circulatory system.
In our cholesterol-frightened society lecithinshould be a far more popular supplement than it currently is.
Lecithin granules have very little flavor and can be added to a home-made vinegar and oil salad dressing, where they emulsify the oil and make it blend with the vinegar, thickening the mixture and causing it to stick to the salad better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lecithin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
