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Definition of Arginase

1. an enzyme [n -S] - See also: enzyme

Medical Definition of Arginase

1. A ureahydrolase that catalyses the hydrolysis of arginine and canavanine to yield l-ornithine and urea. Chemical name: L-Arginine amidinohydrolase Registry number: EC 3.5.3.1 (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Arginase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry: Proteolytic Enzymes by Jean Effront (1917)
"arginase may also be obtained from a maceration of liver made in water acidulated ... arginase is encountered especially in the kidney, the thymus gland, ..."

2. Intracellular Enzymes: A Course of Lectures Given in the Physiological by Horace Middleton Vernon (1908)
"... arginase, urease. Action of enzymes on polypeptides. Amide nitrogen in relation to enzymes and acids. OF the numerous subjects included under the head ..."

3. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Experiments were carried out in regard to the relation of the arginase of ... The arginase of all these plant specimens failed to cause decomposition of ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"The changes induced by arginase in arginin are : proton ... The arginase may be extracted from liver-substance with water or dilute acetic acid ; it is also ..."

5. Chemistry of the Proteids by Gustav Mann (1906)
"The changes induced by arginase in arginin are : proton ... The arginase may be extracted from liver-substance with water or dilute acetic acid ; it is also ..."

6. Enzymes by Otto Cohnheim (1912)
"A second tissue-enzyme is arginase,2 already cited as a digestive enzyme of the ... According to Kossel and Dakin, most arginase is found in the liver, ..."

7. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"As far as has been studied by E.,arginase is found only in the liver; ... A.ossel and Dakin reported arginase in the kidney, thymus and intestine. ..."

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