NOUN
- a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter
How To Use putrescine In A Sentence
- It has been observed at 1063 cm-' for both spermidine and putrescine.
- This may be related to the role of arginine as a biochemical precursor in the synthesis of putrescine, spermidine, and spermine, which are believed to be essential to sperm motility.
- These specificities lead to preferential bindings through the DNA minor groove for putrescine and spermidine, whereas spermine binds by the major groove.
- The effect was dose-dependent in the case of spermidine, but not putrescine and spermine.
- Therefore it was suggested that tapping could stimulate the biosynthesis of polyamines mainly putrescine.
- The stench is from the breakdown of amino acids into amines, which include the evocatively named cadaverine, putrescine, and spermidine. Boing Boing
- A safe dose is up to 400 milligrams of putrescine per day.
- However, Lefevre et al. found an ion-specific increase in putrescine and tyramine concentrations.
- In plants, putrescine is also produced through an alternative arginine decarboxylase pathway.
- The putrescine and the cadaverine concentrations were higher in the proximal than in the distal part of the intestinal lumen.
