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Bitter Relish
<p>This is a thematically linked collection of short stories that involves strange romance with unlikely pairings: gaps in age, health, and class; estrangement in occupation, beliefs, and physicality; even a human's obsession with an object. Each story contains a scene that zooms in on food. There …
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How bitter is it? Odor induced taste modulation of bitter ligands
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Occurrence of a bitter principle in carrots
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Chemistry, 1957
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Physiological studies of bitter pit in apple
… of the histology and physiology of the disorder bitter pit in apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) were studied. A two year field study was conducted to induce consistent bitter pit development in type ’Delicious’ (D) and ’Golden Delicious’ (GD) apple fruit. Multiple spray treatments of CaCl₂ and …
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Biosynthesis of Steroidal Glycoakaloids in Solanum chacoense Bitter
Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are secondary metabolites produced by approximately 350 species in the Solanaceae family. SGAs are reported to be important for pest resistance and flavor enhancement at low concentrations but are toxic to humans and other mammals at high concentrations. Studies on …
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Bitter Gaiety: Yeat's "Meditations in Time of Civil War"
<p>My paper will be divided into four sections. First, using his prose works, I shall examine Yeats's meditative poetic — a chapter which forms the basis for the rest of the paper. Second, I shall explicate in depth the first poem "Ancestral Houses"; third, I shall make a cursory examination of the …
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Structure elucidation of sweet and bitter principles of Polypodium glycyrrhiza.
Structure elucidation of sweet and bitter principles of Polypodium glycyrrhiza.
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Effect of Genetic Variation on Salt, Sweet, Fat and Bitter Taste
… in the perception of salt, sweet, fat and bitter compounds on taste function, food preference and consumption. Methods: Subjects were drawn from the Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study, a population of healthy men (n=487) and women (n = 1058). Dietary intake was assessed using a 196-item …
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Soil-vegetation relationships of a bitter-brush-sagebrush association in northwestern Colorado
… compared with native vegetation responses in a bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), sagebrush (Artemisia ~•) association on a single parent material. The effort was directed toward isolating those soil characteristics which are most valuable as indicators of potential vegetation production. …
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Analysis of Synephrine Content in Bitter Orange (Citrus aurantium L.) Dietary Supplements
… the most abundant active component in bitter orange (<em>Citrus aurantium L.</em>) extracts, became a regular ingredient in weight loss supplements after the 2004 ephedra ban. The initial goal of this research was to use reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to …
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Rapid Expansion and Specialization of the Bitter Taste Receptor Family in Amphibians
In classic sensory literature, bitterness is viewed as an early-warning system for toxic or spoiled foods. In vertebrates, bitterness is detected with a family of intronless G protein-coupled receptors called TAS2Rs. TAS2Rs are well studied in the human and mouse mouth, but recent studies have …
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Study on the effects of bitter taste receptor on the rat pulmonary artery
Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) have been implicated in roles other than taste perception. TAS2R agonists exert vasorelaxant effects in vascular smooth muscle from guinea pig, mouse and humans. We hypothesis that bitter taste agonists could modulate the pulmonary artery vascular tone. The …
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Development of diagnostic tools to predict incidence of bitter pit during apple storage
Bitter pit is an important physiological disorder of many apple cultivars where the low uptake and poor distribution of calcium within the cortex of apples pervades. Controlled atmosphere storage and application of 1-MCP (SmartFreshSM) can delay the onset of bitter pit symptoms by delaying maturity …
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Removal of bitter substances from spent brewers yeast with supercritical fluids and entrainers
Includes bibliographical references.
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Effects of Early and Prolonged Experience With Bitter Water on Its Preferableness to Guinea Pigs
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:51:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6305147.pdf: 2668846 bytes, checksum: 18c0753505950693a99cb9f3a9e72d78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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'The truth is bitter' : Socrates Scholasticus and the writing of a history of the Christian Roman empire
… but as a sophisticated realist. Faced with the bitter intellectual, theological, and organisational disputes that afflicted Christian communities during this period - so often the unfo1iunate products of well-meaning attempts by Christians to correct the errors they perceived in one another - …
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Neuroanatomical Maps and Taste Reactivity to Sweet, Umami, and Bitter Taste in the PBN of C57BL/6J Mice
… five different taste qualities, sour, salty, bitter, sweet, and umami (the savory taste of certain amino acids). In neuroscience research, behavioral testing is used to measure the ability of rodents (including inbred mice) to discriminate between the different taste qualities. Taste …
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Developing Novel Management Options for Pear Fire Blight and Apple Bitter Rot with Characterization of Apple European Canker in Virginia
… to antibiotics. Secondly, in addressing the bitter rot of apples caused by Colletotrichum spp., eighteen fungicide treatments were evaluated over two years, focusing on newer fungicide options to mitigate fungicide resistance development. Fungicides such as Omega, Aprovia, Ferbam, Captan, …
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