putrescine (Crossword)
Definitions of “putrescine”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• An amine associated with putrifying tissue
• A dibasic amine associated with putrifying tissue
• Unpleasant smelling biogenic amine from the amino acid ornithine
• (pu-tres´ēn) a polyamine first found in decaying meat
• A poisonous polyamine formed from the amino acid arginine during putrefaction
• A poisonous polyamine formed by bacterial action on the amino acid arginine during putrefaction
• Related to cadaverine and produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms
• ==History== Putrescine and cadaverine were first described in 1885 by the Berlin physician Ludwig Brieger (1849–1919)
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