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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A yellow coloring-matter, C15H10O8, a hydroxyquercitin contained in the bark of Myrica Nagi and in the leaves of the Sicilian sumac, Rhus Coriaria. It crystallizes in lustrous needles and melts above 300° C.

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  • noun organic chemistry A particular flavonol, found in many vegetables etc., that has antioxidant and other therapeutic properties

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  • Their study supported earlier predictions that two of the compounds, known as myricetin and DOPA, appear to halt DNA repair, while a third, called NCA, has little effect.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • Compounds within extracts obtained from platelet lysates spiked with myricetin (external control compound of similar structure) were separated over 60 min using HPLC analysis with photodiode array detection.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase and NAD (P) Hoxidase and scavenging of free radicals with myricetin restored insulin-stimulated Akt phosphorylation and GLUT4 translocation in the presence of Ang II.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase and NAD (P) Hoxidase and scavenging of free radicals with myricetin restored insulin-stimulated Akt phosphorylation and GLUT4 translocation in the presence of Ang II.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • A: L6 myotubes were pretreated with either AEBSF (0.5 mM) for 30 min, 1400 W (10 µM) for 60 min or myricetin (100 µM) for 30 min prior to addition of Ang II (10 nM) for 30 min and subsequent stimulation with insulin 100 nM for 60 min.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

  • The plasma control extracted ion chromatogram (EIC) was gated at the RT range for quercetin, tamarixetin and myricetin (4A inset), and the quercetin standard EIC was gated at the RT for tamarixetin (4D. ii inset).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010

  • Your answers to holt science text book may include: your squats and what makes them the best, your stranger knowledge, motorcycle strategies, myricetin knowledge, one-stop-shopping and the landfill goes on and on.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Platelet extracts were spiked with 50 µM myricetin, an internal control compound of similar structure.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010

  • Quercetin, tamarixetin and myricetin were purchased from Extrasynthese (Genay, France) and solubilised in DMSO from Sigma (Poole, UK).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Bernice Wright et al. 2010

  • L6 myotubes were pretreated with either AEBSF (0.5 mM) for 30 min, 1400 W (10 µM) for 60 min or myricetin (100 µM) for 30 min, prior to addition of Ang II (10 nM) for 30 min and subsequent stimulation with insulin 100 nM for 60 min.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010

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