(n.) One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(2) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(3) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
(4) Schiff bases are fluorescent products in amine containing systems which are produced in the reaction of the malonaldehyde with amines.
(5) To determine whether the triadimefon-induced hyperactivity is due to an action on CNS catecholaminergic systems, we evaluated the effects of combined treatment of triadimefon with either the tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor d,l-alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine methyl ester HCl (alpha MPT) or the amine depletor reserpine.
(6) In contrast to the enantiomeric discrimination observed with racemic amine, the individual isomers were metabolized at approximately the same rate.
(7) injection of the tertiary amine cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine (17-70 micrograms kg-1) induced a prompt, sustained and dose-dependent improvement of cardiovascular and respiratory function, with marked increase in the volume of circulating blood and survival of all treated animals, at least for the 2 h of observation.
(8) The chemistry involved reaction rate constant measurements of MSF hydrolysis and for reactions with phenolic, amine, oxime, hydroxamic acid, phenyl N-hydroxycarbamate, and hydroxylamine compounds and cupric imidazole and bipyridyl complexes.
(9) The permeability properties of planar lipid bilayers made from egg lecithin, n-decane and a long-chain secondary amine (n-lauryl [trialkylmethyl]amine) are described.
(10) It is concluded that the variable N-oxidation of pinacidil is most likely to be due to variations in the activity of the P-450 isozymes rather than in the microsomal flavoprotein containing mixed-function amine oxidase of Ziegler which is considered to be responsible for the N-oxidation of trimethylamine.
(11) Pretreatment with reserpine or alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine (AMPT) causes cerebral amine depletion and reduction of motor activity, which can be reversed by levodopa.
(12) This increase is presumably the result of radiation induced release of their parent amines from the brain; in the case of VMA the secondary response of the peripheral sympathetic system might occur.
(13) Sajeda Amin is a senior associate at the Population Council .
(14) Maillard reactions occurring during meat extract production was followed in order to reduce the formation of heterocyclic amines.
(15) Numerous polypeptide hormone and amine-producing endocrine cells were disclosed.
(16) Compared to related compounds, N-nitrosobis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine and N-nitrosobis(2-acetoxy-propyl)amine which are also pancreatic carcinogens, BOP induced only a few neoplasms of the lung, liver, and kidney and none in the nasal cavity, larynx, and trachea.
(17) In the scope of our research about the antimicrobial activity of aldehyde-amin-condensates a number of partly new unsymmetrically substituted animals was synthesized by reaction of formaldehyde with different secondary amines.
(18) In contrast, the location of the receptor labeled with the antagonist [3H]xanthine amine congener [( 3H]XAC) varied in the different types of samples.
(19) The amino acid sequence of band 4.2 has homology with two closely related Ca2(+)-dependent cross-linking proteins, guinea pig liver transglutaminase (protein-glutamine gamma-glutamyltransferase; protein-glutamine: amine gamma-glutamyltransferase, EC 2.3.2.13) (32% identity in a 446-amino acid overlap) and the a subunit of human coagulation factor XIII (27% identity in a 639-amino acid overlap), a transglutaminase that forms intermolecular gamma-glutamyl-epsilon-lysine bonds between fibrin molecules.
(20) The N-nitrosamines studied were, N-nitroso: dimethylamine, diethylamine, dipropylamine, dibutylamine, pyrrolidine, piperidine, morpholine, methylbenzylamine, bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)amine, bis-(2-oxopropyl)amine and 3,4-dichloropyrrolidine.
Methylamine
Definition:
(n.) See Methyl amine, under Methyl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both methylamine (10 mM) and dinitrophenol (0.1 mM) had no significant effect.
(2) Two functions of these have been proposed: 1) that they are compatible osmolytes which regulate cell volume (against high external NaCl) without inhibiting proteins and 2) that methylamines (GPC and betaine) are counteracting osmolytes which stabilize proteins against perturbation from high renal urea.
(3) In addition, solution-phase and gas-phase studies with methylamine show that the site of the nucleophilic and electrophilic reactions is probably inside the thermospray probe.
(4) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(5) The enzyme methylamine dehydrogenase or primary-amine:(acceptor) oxidoreductase (deaminating) (EC 1.4.99.3) was purified from the bacterium Thiobacillus versutus to homogeneity, as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(6) Cytochalasin D reduced the uptake of bacteria by the amebae primarily by causing amebae to lift off the culture dish, reducing the number of target hosts; methylamine also reduced the level of initial infection, yet neither inhibitor was able to prevent intracellular replication of Legionella spp.
(7) Addition of methylamine (10 mM) to elevate phagolysosomal pH inhibited phagocytosis and had no effect on intracellular survival of S. aureus.
(8) Labeled acid, 5,5-dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione (DMO), and base, methylamine (MA), have been used in the range of extracellular pH (pHm) of 4.5-7.
(9) In human alpha 2M these effects were greater for the trypsin-treated than for the methylamine-treated inhibitor, which both have undergone similar, major, conformational changes.
(10) did not increase further for up to 12 h. It is proposed that losses of amino compounds may make a significant contribution to the overall decrease in medullary cellular osmotic potential accompanying reduced tissue fluid osmolality, and that increased levels of these solutes may provide short-term osmoprotection during antidiuresis of rapid onset, in contrast to the more slowly accumulating methylamines and polyhydric alcohols.
(11) When grown on methanol or methylamine, Paracoccus denitrificans synthesized three periplasmic soluble c-type cytochromes, cytochrome c550 and two additional cytochromes which were not present during growth on succinate and have not previously been characterized.
(12) The production of active oxygen from LPS-elicited macrophages was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by the treatment of macrophages with cystamine, but was not by the treatment with methylamine.
(13) Sickle cell hemoglobin (Hb S) treated with nitrogen mustard (bis(beta-chloroethyl)methylamine hydrochloride) gives two reaction products, one labile and one stable.
(14) Infected cells were treated with the lysosomotropic agents ammonium chloride, methylamine, and dansylcadaverine or the ionophore monensin to raise the intraendosomal and intralysosomal pH.
(15) In the presence of 1,1'-dimethylferrocene-3-(1-ethanol-2-amine) (14.8 microM), the results reveal a midpoint potential of -148 mV for methylamine dehydrogenase from bacterium W3A1.
(16) ATP-stimulated 22Na uptake and 14C-methylamine efflux were studied in inside-out rat intestinal basal-lateral membrane vesicles (BLMV).
(17) It was sensitive to heat, methylamine, and reduction and alkylation.
(18) The binding of 125I-transforming growth factors-beta 1 and beta 2 (TGF-beta 1 and TGF-beta 2) to alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) was studied before and after reaction with plasmin, thrombin, trypsin, or methylamine.
(19) An accumulation of methylamine during the fermentation of dimethylamine was not observed.
(20) Under these conditions the methylamine intermediate, which is a rather stable structure, was easily separated from the oxidized H-protein on ion-exchange chromatography.