What's the difference between capric and cupric?

Capric


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's not Le Caprice - but it's not Belmarsh either," he writes.
  • (2) injection capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acid delayed the onset of picrotoxin-induced clonic convulsion in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (3) Myristic and palmitic acids were converted to the corresponding omega-and (omega-1)-hydroxy fatty acids, whereas lauric acid was converted only to 12-hydroxylauric acid, and capric acid, to 9-and 10-hydroxycapric acids together with an unknown polar acid.
  • (4) A personal pension pot, so called, is subject to the caprice of both stock markets and interest rates.
  • (5) In each dietary condition, in vitro incorporation of exogenously added fatty acids (ranging from capric to oleic acid) was studied in epididymal adipose glycerides.
  • (6) In trial 3, a teat germicide aged at ambient temperature for 33 mo, which was originally formulated to contain 1% Lauricidin, 5% caprylic and capric acids, and 6% lactic acid, was evaluated.
  • (7) To metabolize extracellular superoxide radicals effectively at or near cell membranes, we synthesized amphipathic superoxide dismutase (SOD) derivatives (AC-SOD) by covalently linking hydrophobic fatty acids with different chain lengths, such as caprylic acid, capric acid, lauric acid and myristic acid, to the lysyl amino groups of the enzyme.
  • (8) But even Tim Oliver of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, who advances this vision , says the UK would be a junior partner, dependent on the caprices of European institutions, trying to negotiate bilateral free trade deals from a position of weakness.
  • (9) Milk of Egyptian women contained significantly higher percentages of capric, lauric, myristic, linoleic and arachidonic acids, saturated fatty acids (SFA), and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).
  • (10) A considerable portion of capric and caprylic acid was absorbed through the lymph duct, although to a lesser extent than was linoleic acid.
  • (11) Lauric and myristic acids were preferentially metabolized to their omega-1 hydroxy counterparts while no hydroxylation occurred when capric acid was used as the substrate.
  • (12) The seed lipids of Cuphea were first discovered in the 1960s to contain high percentages of several medium-chain fatty acids, including caprylic, capric, lauric, and myristic acid.
  • (13) The increase in the synaptic potential was significant with arachidonic acid (100 microM), oleic acid (100 microM), myristic acid (250 microM) and capric acid (250 microM).
  • (14) Capric, lauric, palmitoleic, linoleic, and arachidonic acids each inhibited the rate of angiotensin I production in vitro (P less than 0.01).
  • (15) Hydrolysis, followed by analysis by thin-layer chromatography, paper chromatography, gas chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry showed that the radioactivity was greatest in the medium-chain n-fatty acids, caprylic (C8) and capric (C10) acids.
  • (16) Inhibition is strongest in the presence of caprylic, capric and lauric acid (C8-C12) i.e.
  • (17) A similar trend was observed when the medium-chain fatty acid was caprylic acid instead of capric acid.
  • (18) To scavenge superoxide radicals on the outer surface of corneal epithelial cells, the authors synthesized an acylated SOD derivative (AC-SOD) by linking capric acid.
  • (19) The interference of hyperthermia and ionizing radiation, respectively, with the effects of capric (10:0), lauric (12:0), myristic (14:0), oleic (cis-18:1) and elaidic (trans-18:1) acids on the osmotic resistance of human erythrocytes was investigated.
  • (20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.

Cupric


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Sulfate, with or without choline, had little effect in the presence of cupric sulfate.
  • (3) Its unexpectedly low value is interpreted that MSF does not possess a site with sufficient basicity to be protonated by strong acid, to enter into hydrogen bonding, or for coordination with the cupric ion.
  • (4) However, variations in cupric ion activity rather than pH per se could explain these effects.
  • (5) Saponin-permeabilized polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) released beta-glucuronidase, a lysosomal enzyme, dose-dependently in response to cupric phenanthroline (CuPh), a mild oxidant, which catalyzes the formation of disulfide bridges.
  • (6) Several copper and cupric ion sources were shown to kill or inhibit the growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vitro.
  • (7) When these irradiated preparations are exposed to ferrous or cupric salts a further fragmentation of monoamine oxidase ensues, especially at acid pH.
  • (8) Condensation of the glyoxal obtained by cupric acetate oxidation of 21-hydroxycorticosteroids with acetous phenylhydrazine reagent affords a near UV chromophore.
  • (9) Intraperitoneal injections of cupric acetate increased serum levels of cholesterol and phospholipids without liver damage.
  • (10) It is suggested that cupric ions, at high concentrations, have an inhibiting effect on myometrial activity.
  • (11) The products formed were separated by chromatography on the paper; then they were stained with ninhydrin and converted into cupric complexes during extraction with ethanol; the optic density was measured at 510 nm.
  • (12) Under the conditions of this study, it is possible that cuprous ion would be oxidised to the cupric form generating free radicals in the process.
  • (13) These results suggest that the enzyme may have two essential carboxyl groups at the active site, one reactive with DAN in the presence of cupric ions and the other with EPNP, and that pepstatin binds part of the active site to inhibit the reactions with DAN and EPNP as well as the enzyme activity.
  • (14) The inhibition of xanthine oxidase by quercetin was not affected by cupric ion.
  • (15) Diagnostic potentialities of the crystallo-optic++ analysis of cupric chloride crystallographs++ were studied in 76 children with pyelonephritis and in 50 children with glomerulonephritis.
  • (16) Biotinylated DNA or RNA is used as a hybridization probe in solution, avidin is then added to label both the probe and hybrid molecules, and the hybridization mixture chromatographed over cupric-iminodiacetic acid agarose beads.
  • (17) Zinc, cupric, and cadmium ions, in that order of effectiveness, inhibited lysis of washed, rabbit erythrocytes by the toxic bacterial product aerolysin.
  • (18) Oxidative cyclization of 2',3'-O-isopropylideneadenosines to the corresponding 5'-O,8-cyclo-2',3'-O-isopropylideneadenosines was achieved by using by lead tetraacetate, cupric chloride, and N-halogeno-succinimide as an oxidant, and by irradiation with a uv-visible light in the presence of pyrimido[5,4-g]pteridinetetrone 5-oxide.
  • (19) The predominant site of interaction of cupric ion was the unsubstituted nitrogen atom (N-3) on the metronidazole molecule.
  • (20) Previously described false-negative results with vitamin C, bile, and certain antacids were confirmed, as were false-positive results with iodide, bromide, cupric sulfate, iron salts, and hypochlorite.

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