Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet-tasting, crystalline disaccharide, C12H22O11, found in trehala, in the hemolymph of numerous insects, and in many fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sugar first extracted from trehala, since proved to be identical with mycose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
disaccharide formed from twoglucose units
Etymologies
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Examples
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They used sucrose and another sugar called trehalose, which is known for its preservative properties.
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For example, nematodes, tardigrades and Artemia accumulate a disaccharide called trehalose prior to drying, whereas bdelloids don't Lapinski & Tunnacliffe, 2003; Hengherr et al., 2008.
How to create animate matter from seemingly lifeless dust AYDIN 2008
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For example, nematodes, tardigrades and Artemia accumulate a disaccharide called trehalose prior to drying, whereas bdelloids don't Lapinski & Tunnacliffe, 2003; Hengherr et al., 2008.
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They mixed the enzyme with a sugar called trehalose that made it stable at internal body temperature.
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[46] have shown that both of these requirements can be fulfilled by using the non-reducing disaccharide trehalose, which is present in many organisms
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dity Natan et al. 2009
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Scientists like Dr. Eroglu, are showing that these sugars, such as trehalose used by tardigrades, also can help humans, monkeys and other species that don't naturally produce them.
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Scientists like Dr. Eroglu, are showing that these sugars, such as trehalose used by tardigrades, also can help humans, monkeys and other species that don't naturally produce them.
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Anhydrobiosis without trehalose in bdelloid rotifers.
How to create animate matter from seemingly lifeless dust AYDIN 2008
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Anhydrobiosis without trehalose in bdelloid rotifers.
Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008
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By 2002, he had inserted E. coli genes into rice to make it produce the sugar trehalose when stressed by drought, salt or cold.
Inventor Pioneered Military Helicopters Stephen Miller 2008
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