Carotenoids are ancient compounds, involved in a multitude of biological functions in addition to coloration (e.g., [ 34]).
He secretly hired Arab tribesmen to dig in the mounds and immediately found an ancient palace compound, complete with murals, ivories and wall carvings.
Don't confuse Anantara with Aman — the ne plus ultra chain that is set to open Amanfayun (www.amanfayun.com), a spectacular 42-room resort that evokes an ancient Chinese compound, about 20 minutes from Hangzhou, China.
The energy capital of the world recognizes that its most abundant resource is an ancient organic compound, and that sending it into the atmosphere through the ends of pipes isn't the best way to use it, for anyone, and that more precious, valued added products can be created with longer life spans and more integrated value chains.
The chapter also describes how these vesicles are related to naturally occurring substances, particularly the vesicular membranes that are produced from ancient organic compounds present in carbonaceous meteorites.
An argument in the real sense of an argument, it's as if Paine is shouting at you as he rips into the unfairness of a king on one island ruling a continent on the other side of an ocean: "If we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the English Constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new Republican materials".
Since ancient times, compounds containing mercury have been used in the treatment of skin diseases and other ailments.
This detailed study shows that a receptor binding a given ligand can acquire affinity for compounds present in the cell that are structurally close to its natural ligand: this refines the ligand exploitation model, since new ligands are not necessarily precursors of ancient ligands, simply compounds present in the cell and structurally close to the ancestral ligand.
Sheji, ( Chinese: "Soil and Grain") Wade-Giles romanization She Chi, in ancient Chinese religion, a compound patron deity of the soil and harvests.
The man lived in a corner of the world where, from time to time, evil seemed to bubble up from the rusty red earth like a black combustible compound of ancient things long dead.
