(n.) A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.
(n.) Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which phenol proper is the type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(2) The presence of the expected C19 neutral and C18 phenolic steroids was confirmed.
(3) The effect of mycobacterial phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium leprae, M. bovis BCG, and M. kansasii on in vitro proliferative responses by human blood mononuclear cells from healthy BCG vaccinees was investigated.
(4) 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.
(5) In the liver, the major site of benzene metabolism, benzene is converted by a cytochrome P-450-mediated pathway to phenol, the major metabolite, and the secondary metabolites, hydroquinone and catechol.
(6) Except in the case of the phenolic metabolite, structures were confirmed by direct comparison of electron impact mass spectra and chromatographic behaviour with those of authentic samples.
(7) It may be concluded that phenolization of the sympathetic nervous system provides the same results as surgical sympathectomy but has the advantage of lower morbidity and shorter hospitalization (24 h vs 10 days).
(8) It was hypothesized that the observed activity variation of the paracetamol analogues was based on the relative abilities of these compounds to undergo H atom loss at the phenolic oxygen, and on the relative stabilities of the resulting free-radical species.
(9) Lipopolysaccharide content correlated significantly with drug uptake and sensitivity, and it appeared to determine the degree of penetration of the cell envelope by these chlorinated phenols.
(10) Liberation of the polysaccharides from the carrier by treatment with aqueous phenol resulted in loss of the serological activity.
(11) Here we report that phenol hydroxylation to hydroquinone is also catalyzed by human myeloperoxidase in the presence of a superoxide anion radical generating system, hypoxanthine and xanthine oxidase.
(12) The 2-substituted phenoxy-6-methoxy-8-aminoquinolines (4-6) were afforded by reduction of the corresponding 8-nitroquinolines (1-3) which were obtained by condensation of 2-chloro-6-methoxy-8-nitroquinoline and substituted phenols.
(13) This report reviews the treatment of pilonidal sinus by phenol injection in 54 patients.
(14) One group of rats was made immunocompetent towards P. aeruginosa by intraperitoneal injection of phenol-killed P. aeruginosa while a second group remained naive to this organism.
(15) These data indicate that the phenolic hydroxyl groups of xanthomegnin might contribute to its uncoupling action on the oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria.
(16) The coupled dienone-phenol re-arrangement and keto-enol tautomerism of this quinone methide produce the observed 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde.
(17) The phenol metabolites benzoquinone and 1,2,4-benzenetriol both activated the glutathione transferase in microsomes 2-fold independently of added NADPH.
(18) The isolation of plant enzymes is frequently hampered by the presence of phenolic compounds, pigments and mucilages.
(19) An enzyme (EC 2.8.2.1) that catalyses the transfer of sulphate from adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-sulphatophosphate to phenols was purified approx.
(20) Physico-chemical parameters of membranes of skeletal muscles' sarcoplasmic reticulum in antioxidant insufficiency, which was modelled by excluding alpha-tocopherol from the animals ration, and after treatment with phenol antioxidant ionol were studied.
Xylenol
Definition:
(n.) Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.
Example Sentences:
(1) These criteria are applied to para-chloro-meta-xylenol (PCMX), a compound used with increasing frequency in health care personnel handwashing agents.
(2) Calcein, calcein blue, and xylenol orange produced green, blue, and red fluorescence, respectively.
(4) This manuscript reports the results of an investigation into the suitability of the ferrous sulfate-benzoic acid-xylenol orange (FBX) dosimeter for measurement of small absorbed doses caused by radionuclide solutions mixed with the dosimeter solution.
(5) The regulation of the inducible set of gentisate pathway enzymes used by Pseudomonas alcaligenes (P25X1) has been studied in strains derived from mutant strains of P25X1 that had lost the constitutive enzymes that degrade m-cresol, 2,5-xylenol and 3,5-xylenol.
(6) After extractive acetylation, the derivatives of all cresols and xylenols were completely separated on a Se-54 capillary column.
(7) An automated method, based on the chelating reaction of calcium disodium edetate with zirconium and the subsequent determination of excess zirconium reacted with xylenol orange, was developed.
(8) Two distinct NAD+-dependent m-hydroxybenzyl alcohol dehydrogenases were purified from cells grown on 3,5-xylenol.
(9) Twenty-four-hour IC50 values (50% immobilization concentration) for phenol, o-cresol, m-cresol, p-cresol, six xylenols, and three trimethylphenols were determined for Daphnia magna under static conditions.
(10) The oxidation product of 2,5-xylenol was identified as 3-hydroxy-4-methylbenzoic acid.
(11) In ten patients with severe chronic bronchitis and in a further 23 with planned resection of lung, tonsils or larynx, 500 mg doses, single or multiple, of xibornol (6-isobronyl-3, 4-xylenol) were administered for an antibacterial effect.
(12) Bone formation of fractured fibulae stimulated by pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF), PGE2, and combination of both was assessed with roentgenography and fluorescent labelling compounds, tetracycline, xylenol orange, and calcein.
(13) The filtrate is evaporated to dryness, redissolved in water, and reacted with 2,4-xylenol in the presence of sulfuric acid to form 6-nitro-2,4-xylenol.
(14) The addition of the laccase reversed the inhibitory effect of 2,6-xylenol, 4-chloro-2-methylphenol, and p-cresol.
(15) The fluorescent calcium binding dyes xylenol orange, calcein green, and tetracycline were used successfully to sequentially label new bone deposition and bone remodeling during the healing of rigidly fixed humeral fractures in the chicken.
(16) The calcium binding fluorochromes calcein, calcein blue, and xylenol orange were investigated, with each fluorochrome being included in the alkaline phosphatase incubating medium and used in a single-step procedure.
(17) When supplemented with ATP, CoA, succinate and Mg(2+) ions, an enzyme system from cells grown with 2,5-xylenol formed pyruvate from d- but not from l-citramalate.
(18) Several vital dyes are used (tetracycline, calcein, alizarin, xylenol), but it is not known whether the histomorphometric results they provide are equivalent.
(19) No cross sensitivity to 4-chloro-3,5 xylenol was seen.
(20) Complete separation of the mixture has been obtained, except for phenol and o-cresol and o-ethylphenol and 3,5-xylenol whose peaks overlapped, and 2- and 3-methylindoles which were poorly separated.