(n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
Example Sentences:
(1) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(2) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(3) Stopped-flow studies of oxidation of butan-1-ol and propan-2-ol by NAD(+) in the presence of Phenol Red and large concentrations of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase give no evidence for the participation of a group of pK(a) approx.
(4) The purification procedure includes butan-1-ol extraction of yolk lipids, phosphocellulose chromatography of the water-soluble proteins, DEAE-cellulose chromatography at pH 7.4 and hydroxyapatite column chromatography.
(5) The inhibitory activity of 2-phosphono-butane 1,2,4 tricarboxylic acid (PBTA) in the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA) was studied in vitro and in vivo.
(6) Inhibition by organic proteinase inhibitors, including E-64 [L-trans-epoxysuccinyl-leucylamido-(4-guanidino)butane] and activation of the enzyme by 2-mercaptoethanol and dithiothreitol are characteristic of cysteine proteinases.
(7) The bile-pigment chromophores of C-phycoerythrin (phycoerythrobilin) and C-phycocyanin (phycocyanobilin) were cleaved from their respective proteins with boiling methanol or butan-1-ol.
(8) Thiochrome is then extracted with butan-1-ol, which results in fewer co-extracts and greater selectivity.
(9) We investigated the longitudinal dispersion of helium (He), methane, acetylene, butane, sulfur hexafluoride, and octafluorocyclobutane (C4F8) in a clear plastic model of the human bronchial airways.
(10) While with some other heterocyclic and aromatic aldehydes, and under the same conditions, the corresponding analogs of alpha, delta-bis(thiazolidinidione-2,4-N-arylidenehydrazone-4-arylidene-5-yl-3) butane (3) were obtained.
(11) This substance from Brevibacterium ammoniagenes has now been identified as 2-methyl-butan-1,2,3,4,-tetraol-2,4-cyclopyrophosphate, which is accumulated in the cell under certain conditions in concentrations of of about 50 mM.
(12) In all patients there was a reluctance to admit that butane vapour was in use as an intoxicant immediately prior to the injury.
(13) A short-term response immediately after exposure was observed for subjects exposed to butane.
(14) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
(15) The volatile substances abused were gas fuels (24%), mainly butane; aerosol sprays (17%); solvents in glues (27%); and other volatile substances, such as cleaning agents (31%).
(16) Diisopropylphosphofluoridate (Dip-F) and phenylmethanesulphonylfluoride (Pms-F) are inhibitors of "serine" proteinases, and L-trans-epoxysuccinylleucylamido-(4-guanido)-butane (E-64) is an inhibitor of "thiol" proteinases.
(17) The therapeutic effect of cis-1, 1-cyclobutane dicarboxylato-(2R)-2-methyl-1,4-butane diamine platinum (II) (NK 121) on 3 human yolk sac tumors of the ovary (YST-1, YST-2 and YST-3), which were transplanted into nude mice, was compared with that of cisplatin (CDDP).
(18) They form a regular series with different degrees of glycosylation (mainly owing to N-acetylneuraminic acid), of charge, of molecular weight, of stability to temperature, to pH and to urea, of minimal requirement for Mg(2+) and of extractability by butan-1-ol.
(19) The structure skeleton consists of four parts, the naphthalene nucleus connected to the 5-membered ring, a 17-membered ring connected to C2, a dimethyl butane diacid extended out from C20, beta-D-3,4-OO' methylenedigitoxose passing through an oxygen bridge O6 and linked to C27 of ansa ring.
(20) L-1-Chloro-4-phenyl-3-tosylamido[1-13C]butan-2-one (Tos-[1-13C]Phe-CH2Cl) and Tos-[1-13C,2H2]Phe-CH2Cl were prepared and used to alkylate delta-chymotrypsin.
Pentane
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Breath was passed through a cooled loop of alumina to adsorb, concentrate, and release, on heating, pentane.
(2) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(3) Infants receiving total parenteral nutrition including intravenous lipid emulsion excrete more than 100 pmol of pentane per kilogram body weight per minute.
(4) Extractions by the Twisselmann method give increasing yields in the order n-pentane, hexane, and n-heptane.
(5) The second group of solvents, including toluene and chloroform, showed only a destabilizing effect, while the third group of solvents such as formamide and pentane had no effect over a wide range of concentrations.
(6) The effects of oxygen on production of pentane and compounds absorbing at 234 nm and 285 nm by soybean lipoxygenase isozymes I and II were examined in a model system.
(7) Experiments using purified fatty acids revealed that ethane was preferentially produced from docosahexaenoic and linolenic, and pentane from linoleic and arachidonic acids.
(8) Evidence is produced that destruction of the visual receptor cells by iodoacetate or 1,5-di(p-aminophenoxy) pentane dihydrochloride effectively silences the optic nerve discharge and so achieves this result.2.
(9) Phosphatidylcholine hydroperoxide produced a fluorescent substance (FS-III) through reaction with 1-amino-pentane after preincubation with heme methyl ester as a model system.
(10) The signal is strongly dependent on temperature and can only be well resolved at less than 20 degrees K. It is readily elicited in submitochondrial particles by partial reduction, but has not been observed in submitochondrial particles from which ubiquinone has been removed by pentane extraction.
(11) Pentane extraction of the drug and the internal standard and formation of the N-pentafluorobenzoyl derivatives were followed by GLC.
(12) In oocytes, hybrid-selected human brain mRNA induced acetylcholinesterase activity that was completely inhibited by 1,5-bis[4-allyldimethylammonium)phenyl]pentan-3-one dibromide but not by tetraisopropyl pyrophosphamide, a differential response to these inhibitors characteristic of "true" human brain acetylcholinesterase.
(13) Following hypophysectomy there could be observed a certain decline in the anabolic activity of 1,5-bis(1-carbethoxy-2-oxocyclopentyl-1)pentane.
(14) In order to assess whether multiple sclerosis is associated with lipid peroxidation, we measured pentane and ethane excretion by 16 patients with multiple sclerosis and compared them to healthy control subjects.
(15) The fraction of pentane cyclizations of its hydrocarbon chains increases with the growth temperature of the source organism (39-59 degrees C).
(16) Here, 1-(4-amidino-2-iodophenoxy)-5-(3-amidinophenoxy)pentane (compound 32) was a highly effective inhibitor of bovine thrombin (Ki = 1.1 x 10(-6) M), of human thrombin, and of the overall clotting process of human plasma.
(17) The major hydrocarbon gas products in iron, copper, or hematin catalyzed peroxidation systems were ethane or ethylene from linolenic acid, and pentane from linoleic acid and arachidonic acid.
(18) Lung homogenates from animals treated with alpha-tocopherol had decreased concentrations of TBA reactants and pentane production after incubation with either oxidant stress compared to lung homogenate from animals treated with alpha-tocopheryl acetate or vehicle alone.
(19) We conclude that pentane is a good index of in vitro lipid peroxidation via microsomal NADPH-P-450 enzyme systems.
(20) In schizophrenic patients, the course of lipid peroxidation (LP) was investigated as indicated by pentane contents in the expired air (gas chromatography) during a course of psychotropic drug therapy.