Sentences with phrase «classes of compounds found»

The study's main shortcoming is that it identifies classes of compounds found in smoke rather than specific compounds, he says.

Not exact matches

Three - quarters of the alkaloids they found — to take one class of biologically active compounds — were present only in young leaves, Coley reported here last week at the meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

The family of defense compounds, including Sigillin A, is unique in that it is a new class of natural products that features a chemical scaffold that could find application in insect control.

«Surprisingly, we found that calcium avoidance occurred through two mechanisms: activation of a unique class of GRNs, distinct from those that sense bitter compounds and which cause a stop - feeding signal when activated.

University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique that constructs complex molecules from simple chemical «building blocks,» led a group that found that thousands of compounds in a class of molecules called polyenes — many of which have great potential as drugs — can be built simply and economically from a scant one dozen different building blocks.

It is a member of an entirely new class of alkaloids; it is an organochlorine compound, which is rarely found in animals; and it is a powerful painkiller.

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

In scientific studies, Butea superba's roots have been found to contain a variety of flavonoids (a class of compounds with antioxidant effects).

Did you know that pure maple syrup has the same beneficial classes of antioxidant compounds found in berries, tomatoes, tea, red wine, whole wheat and flax seed?

These are two pyrethroids, a class of synthetic insecticides based on a botanical compound found in Chrysanthemum flowers (pyrethrum).