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sucrose

[soo´krōs]

a disaccharide obtained from sugar cane, sugar beet, or other sources; used as a food and sweetening agent.

sucrose hemolysis test a test for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria; the patient's whole blood is mixed with isotonic sucrose solution, which promotes binding of complement to red blood cells, then incubated and examined for hemolysis; greater than 10 per cent hemolysis indicates paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

su·crose

(sū'krōs),

A nonreducing disaccharide made up of d-glucose and d-fructose obtained from sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum (family Gramineae), from several species of sorghum, and from the sugar beet, Beta vulgaris (family Chenopodiaceae); the common sweetener, used in pharmacy in the manufacture of products such as syrup and confections.

Synonym(s): saccharose, saccharum

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sucrose

(so͞o′krōs′)

A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, extracted chiefly from sugarcane and sugar beets and commonly known as table sugar. Also called saccharose.

su·crose

(sū'krōs)

A nonreducing disaccharide made up of d-glucose and d-fructose obtained from sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum (family Gramineae), from several species of sorghum, and from the sugar beet, Beta vulgaris (family Chenopodiaceae); the common sweetener, table sugar, used in the manufacture of syrup and confections.
Synonym(s): saccharose.

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sucrose

Cane or beet sugar. A crystalline disaccharide carbohydrate present in many foodstuffs and widely used as a sweetener and preservative. During digestion, sucrose hydrolyses to glucose and fructose.

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sucrose

a DISACCHARIDE nonreducing sugar used in sweetening, being obtained from the juice of the sugar cane and from sugar beet. Sucrose (C12H22O11) is formed by a CONDENSATION REACTION between FRUCTOSE and GLUCOSE and can be broken down by acid hydrolysis or incubation with the enzyme sucrase.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

su·crose

(sū'krōs)

Common sweetener, used in pharmacy in manufacture of products such as syrup and confections.

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Pooled outcome data for crying duration from 6 studies (5 sucrose, one glucose; 716 injections) showed no significant difference between groups.

Q / Does giving a sweet-tasting solution before vaccine injection reduce infant crying?

The quality indexes of sugarcane juice studied in the paper include the following: (a) sucrose content (Suc); (b) brix (Bx); (c) polarization (Pol); (d) apparent purity (Ap); and (e) gravity purity (Gp).

Analysis of Sugarcane Juice Quality Indexes

The highest RS values were obtained for samples treated with partial replacement of sucrose by glucose in the osmotic solution (Treatments T3: sucrose + glucose and T4: sucrose + glucose + Ca[Cl.sub.2]).

Mango dehydration: influence of osmotic pre-treatment and addition of calcium chloride/Desidratacao de manga: influencia do pre-tratamento osmoticoe da adicao de cloreto de calcio

In addition, diets containing 15, 30, and 50% sucrose only (Reasol, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico) were evaluated.

An artificial diet for the sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari Zehntner) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) with potential uses for in vitro toxicological studies

* T2: osmotic dehydration with 60% sucrose solution + immersion in 1% citric acid for 2 minutes + drying at 60[degrees]C for 6 hours;

Sensory acceptability and physico-chemical characteristics of dehydrated strawberries with different treatments/Aceitabilidade sensorial e caracteristicas fisico-quimicas de morangos desidratados com diferentes tratamentos

Seeds (~100 mg) were inoculated into 220-mL flasks that contained 40mL of autoclaved (121[degrees]C, 1.1 atm, 15min) 1/2 MS culture medium (MURASHIGE & SKOOG, 1962), 3% sucrose, and 0.7% agar (pH 5.7).

Carbohydrates on the growth of Cattleya schilleriana Reichb.f. seedlings (Orchidaceae)/ Carboidratos no crescimento de plantulas de Cattleya schilleriana Reichb.f

The rate of sucrose accumulation often increases near anthesis in culm internodes, which is a period in which least demand appear in reproductive sinks (Vietor et al., 1989).

Regulation of Sugar in Sweet Sorghum Crop--A Review

In spite of their high degree of accuracy, physical methods can only be used for the titration of pure sucrose solutions.

A New Method for the Determination of Sucrose Concentration in a Pure and Impure System: Spectrophotometric Method

The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of sucrose and ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) concentrations, as well as plant growth regulators (BAP, KIN and 2iP) in MS medium on in vitro propagation and flowering of Celosia argentea var.

Influence of Sugar, Ammonium Nitrate and Plant Growth Regulators on in vitro Flowering of Celosia argentea var. cristata

FOS are industrially produced from sucrose by microbial fructosyltransferases derived from several fungi and bacteria (Nemukula, Mutanda, Wilhelmi, & Whiteley, 2009; Prata, Mussatto, Rodrigues, & Teixeira, 2010; Patel & Goyal, 2011; Belghith, Dahecha, Belghithb, & Mejdouba, 2012; Chen, Sheu, & Duan, 2014; Ganaie, Rawatb, Wania, Gupta, & Kango,2014).

Utilization of low-cost substrates for the production of nystose by Bacillus subtilis natto cct 7712/Utilizacao de substratos de baixo custo para producao de nistose por Bacillus subtilis natto CCT 7712

The team found that dietary fructose and sucrose increased 12-lipoxygenase (12-LOX) signaling, which increased production of 12-hydroxy-5Z,8Z,10E,14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE) to raise the risk of breast cancer development and metastasis.