(n.) A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
(3) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(4) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(5) The stronger negative potentials may weaken electrostatic receptor interactions and, thereby, cause the trans(E)-isomers to be less active than cis(Z)-isomers.
(6) The identity of each of the three forms was determined by carboxymethylation of the free cysteines in each isomer with [3H]iodoacetic acid followed by determination of the labelled cysteines by tryptic peptide mapping.
(7) In contrast to the enantiomeric discrimination observed with racemic amine, the individual isomers were metabolized at approximately the same rate.
(8) To further assess different binding behavior of these two isomers, association rate was measured.
(9) None of the 3 beta- or 5 beta-isomers had any effect.
(10) Isomers and epimers of glucose influence insulin and cAMP in a parallel fashion as do sulfonylurea compounds (tolbutamide and glibenclamide).
(11) Bioaccumulation experiments were performed on the hexachlorocyclohexane isomers alpha-HCH, beta-HCH, gamma-HCH and delta-HCH, testing them simultaneously.
(12) Although serum total LDH activity was not altered, the LD5 isoenzyme was proportionately higher in the HCH isomers treated animals.
(13) Racemic verapamil and the L- and D-isomer increased cellular vincristine accumulation to the same extent.
(14) The hypothesis that opiate agonism requires an N substituent in the axial position does not appear to be consistent with the increased potency of beta isomers in which axial N substituents are thermodynamically more unstable.
(15) In the case of adducts with the diol-epoxides of benzo[c]phenanthrene, the energetically most favored structures are isomers with significant biological activity.
(16) Liver regeneration was stimulated in male rats with two-thirds of the liver removed by feeding a basal diet supplemented with acetaminophen (0.35-1.5%; weight basis), 2-acetamidophenol (1.0%) and acetophenetidin (1.0%) over a period of 10 days po, but was in the control range with the m-isomer, 3-acetamidophenol (1.0%), N-butyryl-p-aminophenol (1.0%), o-, m- and p-aminophenols (0.50%) and 4-acetamidothiophenol.
(17) However, exposure of the cells to either of the two isomers of azoxy-procarbazine led to significant DNA damage and cytotoxicity.
(18) 1"-Oxobufuralol (3) was reduced with a complex of (2S)-(-)-2-amino-3-methyl-1,1-diphenylbutan-1-ol and borane, yielding 2, which had a 95:5 ratio of the possible 1"R and 1"S isomers as determined by HPLC.
(19) As the two signals had the same intensities, it was suggested that equivalent amounts of cis and trans isomers of the alkenylmether were formed.
(20) The most important recent work has concerned the different anticoagulant potencies and metabolic pathways of the optical isomers of some of these drugs.
Mannitol
Definition:
(n.) The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(2) Seven of 12 who received mannitol responded with a diuresis.
(3) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(4) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
(5) The free radical scavengers mannitol, thiourea, benzoate, and 4-methylmercapto-2-oxobutyrate protected either native cells exposed to H2O2 or pretreated hepatocytes exposed to H2O2 and given ferric or ferrous iron.
(6) D-Mannitol has not so far been known as a major product of sugar metabolism by yeasts.
(7) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
(9) In either the presence or the absence of hemoglobin, it was commonly observed that the enzyme inactivation, which was maximal at pH 10, was significantly protected by tocopherol, but neither by mannitol nor ethanol, and that the inclusion of arachidonic acid or linoleic acid prevented the enzyme inactivation.
(10) The oxygen-free radical scavengers thiourea, mannitol and catalase prevented toxicity mediated by ferrous ammoniumsulphate but not by ferrous ascorbate (molar ratio of 1:20).
(11) The population of correctly oriented EII molecules was monitored by measuring active uptake of mannitol with internal phosphoenolpyruvate, EI, and HPr.
(12) Procedures are described for the preparation of two disaccharides, 4-O-alpha-L-iduronosyl-2,5-anhydro[3H]mannitol and 3-O-alpha-L-iduronosyl-2,5-anhydro[3H]-talitol, from heparin and dermatan sulfate, respectively.
(13) The effect of vinpocetine was compared to other antioxidants, to mannitol, vitamin E and dimethyl sulfoxide.
(14) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(15) In 2 groups of chemoreceptor-intact animals an osmotic diuresis was induced by intravenous infusion of an isoionic solution containing equivalent amounts of either sorbitol or mannitol.
(16) No protection from stimulation-associated impedance modifications was provided by the systemic administration of a material of high osmolarity (Mannitol) but the usual impedance decrease was not seen after systemic administration of a glucocorticoid.
(17) This mutant, similar to the mutants deficient in any of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes, does not allow appreciable alginate formation from glucose and gluconate, but allows alginate synthesis from mannitol and fructose.
(18) Variations of mannitol clearance parallel to those of bile flow indicate a canalicular origin of all changes.
(19) Instead, the latter experiment yielded 1,5-anhydro-2,3-di-O-methyl-D-mannitol, establishing the presence in the polysaccharide of terminal (nonreducing) D-mannopyranosyl groups bearing 4,6-O-(1-carboxyethylidene) substituents.
(20) Neither mannitol nor desferrioxamine, at the concentrations normally used in radical-generating systems, appears to react with HOCl.