(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.
Xylidine
Definition:
(n.) Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An internal standard, N',N'-diethylaminoacetyl-2,6-xylidine, is used to quantitate meperidine.
(2) 2,4-Xylidine increased lung tumors in female mice at the higher dose only.
(3) But when xipamide is acted upon by strong alkali and elevated temperature, 2,6-xylidine is formed by hydrolysis.
(4) Recoveries of other lidocaine metabolites: N-(N-ethylglycy)-2,6-xylidine, 3-hydroxylidocaine, 3-hydroxy-N-(N-ethylyglycyl)-2,6-xylidine and N-(N-ethylglycyl)-2-hydroxymethyl-6-methylaniline were similar in the PN- and chow-fed group.
(5) Aniline hydroxylase activity was increased in all treated rats except males dosed with 2,6-xylidine.
(6) Male ICR mice were treated with 1, 2 or 3 daily doses of either benzidine or 2,6-xylidine.
(7) A new metabolite, 3-hydroxy-N-glycyl-2,6-xylidine was also present in significant amounts, as well as minor quantities of four oxygenated metabolites of N-(N-ethylglycyl)-2,6-xylidine.
(8) Biochemical investigations showed increases in microsomal protein and cytochrome P-450 content in rats dosed with 2,4- or 2,5-xylidine and in glucuronyltransferase activity in rats given 2,4-, 2,5- or 2,6-xylidine.
(9) Only one major metabolite, 3-hydroxy-N-(N-ethylglycyl)-2,6-xylidine, was excreted in urine.
(10) A method has been developed for air sampling and laboratory analysis of vapors of seven aniline compounds: aniline, N,N-dimethylaniline, o-toluidine, 2,4-xylidine, panisidine, o-anisidine, and p-nitroaniline.
(11) Out of 37 aniline derivatives, 6 chemicals, i.e., 2,4,6-trimethylaniline (mesidine), 2,4-xylidine, 3,5-diaminobenzoic acid, 3,4-diaminochlorobenzene, 2-chloro-4-methylaniline and 4-chloro-N-methylaniline, elicited positive DNA repair responses.
(12) The results of the study indicate that all isomes of xylidine can be inducers of microsomal drug-metabolising enzyme activity, that they may be metabolised by oxidation and that the xylidine molecule may be eliminated as a conjugate with glucuronic acid.
(13) Syntheses of amino acid derivatives of p-aminobenzoic acid and 2,6-xylidine, potential antiarrhythmic agents are described.
(14) These metabolites were monoethylglycinexylidide(I), glycinexylidide(II), 3-hydroxymonoethylglycinexylidide(III), 3-hydroxylidocaine(IV), 4-hydroxylidocaine(V), xylidine(VI) and 4-hydroxyxylidine(VII).
(15) 2,4-Toluenediamine, o-phenylenediamine, o-toluidine, 2,4,6-trimethylaniline, 2,4,5-trimethylaniline, 2,5-xylidine, and 1-chloro-2-nitrobenzene led to tumors in one or more tissues in all three of these animal models.
(16) Benzidine produced a significant (p less than 0.001) dose related increase in the incidence of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes (MPE), while 2,6-xylidine had no effect on the frequency of micronucleated cells.
(17) In rats, repeated administration of either xylidine for 10 days failed to increase the appearance of metabolites, but 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC) did increase the urinary concentration of AAMBA in 2,4-DMA dosed rats.
(18) Horobin and Bennion stated in 1973 that the bonding of Biebrich scarlet at an alkaline pH is hydrophobic as the isomers of Biebrich scarlet (ponceau de xylidine and woodstain scarlet) do not stain at that pH.
(19) About half of an administered dose of GX is excreted unchanged in urine, roughly 15% appears in urine as conjugates of xylidine and p-OH xylidine, and the fate of the rest is unknown.
(20) Syntheses of N-(p-aminobenzoylaminoalkylacyl)-2,6-xylidines are described.