Murine vs Purine - What's the difference?
murine | purine |
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae.
* {{quote-book
, passage=One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
, page=699
, title=Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition
, author=Gilbert S. Banker & Christopher T. Rhodes
, publisher=Informa Health Care
, year=2002
, isbn=0824706749}}
(organic compound) Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings that comprise one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
* 1982 , Ray A. Field, Mechanically Deboned Red Meat'', C. O. Chichester, George Franklin Stewart, ''Advances in Food Research , Volume 27,
* 1993 , Andrew Travers, DNA-Protein Interactions ,
* 2008 , Hemanta K. Majumder, Drug Targets in Kinetoplastid Parasites ,
As an adjective murine
is of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family muridae.As a noun purine is
(organic compound) any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings that comprise one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.murine
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(wikipedia purine)Noun
(en noun)page 67,
- Clifford et al.'' (1976) investigated the metabolism of individual purines''' and found that adenine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine, had pronounced effects on blood uric acid levels. The ' purine content of foods, in particular adenine, would therefore be of immense nutritional significance.
page 6,
- For example, for purine'-pyrimidine and for pyrimidine-'''purine''' base steps the presence of ' purines on opposite strands in successive base pairs sterically restricts the conformations that these base pairs can adopt relative to each other.
page 142,
- The discovery that certain pyrazolopyrimidine nucleobases and nucleosides, analogs of naturally occurring purines', are toxic to ''Leishmania'', coupled with the obligatory nature of the leishmanial '''purine''' salvage pathway, has spawned considerable interest in the ' purine salvage pathway as a drug target.
