(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.
Pentyl
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximum potency was displayed by N-tert-pentyl-N'-3 pyridyl-N"-cyanoguanidine (20).
(2) The other compounds (1-cyclopentylfestuclavine, 13-bromo-1-cyclopropylmethylfestuclavine, 6-cyano-1-propyl-6-norfestuclavine and 6-allyl-1-propyl-6-norfestuclavine) showed mutagenic effects only in the presence of S9, as previously observed with other clavines (agroclavine and its 1-propyl and 1-pentyl derivatives).
(3) In hepatocytes from Aroclor-pretreated rats, 0.09% were pentyl conjugates and 1.1% methyl conjugates.
(4) N-Propyl-, N-butyl, N-isobutyl, and N-pentyl-NNG's were administered to rats as 0.34mM solutions in the drinking water for 12 months and the rats were killed about 6 months later.
(5) Indeed, authentic 4-POBN pentyl radical adduct obtained from the reaction between pentylhydrazine and 4-POBN gave the same mass spectrum as the product obtained from the reaction of linoleic acid and arachidonic acid with 4-POBN.
(6) The ferrochelatase-inhibitory activity of the 4-butyl, 4-pentyl, 4-hexyl, and 4-cyclopropylmethyl analogues of DDC was considered to be due to the formation of the corresponding N-alkylporphyrins.
(7) Determinations of epsilonM of some higher esters (ethyl to pentyl) and some partial methyl esters with one carboxyl group free are also presented.
(8) These compounds were converted to pentyl derivatives with pentyl Grignard reagent and then analysed by C-GC.
(9) Additionally, the ability of the mutant complexes to oxidize reduced benzyl viologen or reduce the ubiquinone analogue 2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-6-pentyl-1,4-benzoquinone and phenazine methosulfate with succinate as electron donor were also affected but to varying degrees.
(10) The dog's response magnitude dependence on the nasal flow rate was noticeable for n-pentyl acetates, but not so great as for n-butyric acid.
(11) P450IIB1 also catalyses the alpha-oxygenation of both the pentyl and methyl groups of N-nitrosopentylmethylamine, forming pentaldehyde and formaldehyde at a rate ratio of 2:1, as well as oxygenation at other carbons of the pentyl group.
(12) Finally, in agreement with earlier reports on the naturally occurring pentyl side chain acids, the synthetic acids showed little activity in producing catalepsy in the mouse, suggesting that they would be nonpsychotropic in humans.
(13) The effects of the hypoketonaemic and hypoglycaemic compound 2[5(4-chlorophenyl)pentyl]oxirane-2-carboxylate (POCA) on fatty acid synthesis and fatty acid oxidation in rat hepatocytes were examined.
(14) Phenyl ethyl pentylphosphonate inhibits at least as well or probably better than p-nitrophenyl ethyl pentyl phosphonate, the chemotactic factor induced relase of lysozyme from polymorphonuclear leucocytes spread on Millipore filters in the absence of cytochalasin B.
(15) In the present study, we have investigated agroclavine and its 1-propyl and 1-pentyl derivatives for mutagenicity.
(16) An alpha-fucosidase from the liver of the marine gastropod Charonia lampas was purified to homogeneity using a procedure that included cation-exchange and gel-filtration chromatography, chromatofocusing and a final series of affinity-chromatography steps which involved the following gel-immobilized ligands: N-(5-carboxy-1-pentyl)-1,5-dideoxy-1,5-imino-L-fucitol, N-(5-carboxy-1-pentyl)-2-acetamido-1,5-imino-1,2,5-trideoxy-D-glucitol and thio-beta-D-galactoside.
(17) Systematic examination of a homologous series of omega-aminoalkyl agaroses showed that the pentyl derivative (Seph-C5-NH2) was best suited for the retention and subsequent separation of several proteins involved in the regulation of glutamine metabolism in Escherichia coli, including: glutamine synthetase [EC 6.3.1.2; L-glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming)], ATP:glutamine synthetase adenylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.42), the PII regulatory protein which regulates the adenylylation and deadenylylation activities of the adenylyltransferase, the UTP:PII protein uridylyltransferase, and the uridylyl removing enzyme which catalyzes the removal of uridylyl groups from uridylylated PII protein.
(18) The receptor is adsorbed to uncharged pentyl-Sepharose but not to butyl-Sepharose at 1 M NaCl.
(19) The tritiated analogue of R75231 ((+-)-2-(aminocarbonyl)-N-(4-amino-2,6-dichlorophenyl)-4-[5,5-bis (4-fluorophenyl)pentyl]-1-piperazineacetamide) has been examined as a new radioligand for (nitrobenzylthioinosine sensitive) nucleoside transport proteins.
(20) In contrast, for leghemoglobin, although the rate constants decrease from methyl to n-propyl, they show a progressive and important rise with longer alkyl substituents: n-butyl and n-pentyl.