Definition of Nicotinamide

1. Noun. (vitamin) The amide of nicotinic acid (or niacin). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nicotinamide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nicotinamide

1. Member of the water soluble B vitamin group, used in the production of fatty acids, steroids and cholesterol, deficiency is known as pellagra. Has cholesterol-lowering and vasodilating properties. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicotinamide

nicodicodeine
nicofuranose
nicoise
nicols
nicomorphine
nicoracetam
nicotian
nicotiana
nicotianas
nicotianine
nicotians
nicotic
nicotidine
nicotin
nicotinamidase
nicotinamide (current term)
nicotinamide-nucleotide adenylyltransferase
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
nicotinamide methyltransferase
nicotinamide mononucleotide
nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase
nicotinamide riboside kinase
nicotinamides
nicotinate
nicotinatenucleotide-dimethylbenzimidazole phosphoribosyltransferase
nicotine
nicotine addiction
nicotine alkaloid

Literary usage of Nicotinamide

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This substance can be hydro- lyzed to nicotinamide and nicotinic acid. Highly unsaturated molecules that can readily be obtained from simple gas mixtures by ..."

2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"This pathway requires oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) hydrolysis to adenosine diphosphate ribose and nicotinamide. ..."

3. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"... hormone MZ monozygotic NAD+ oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NADH reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NADPH reduced nicotinamide ..."

4. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings and by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"... reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NASBA nucleic acid-sequence-based amplification NIJ National Institute of Justice NIOSH National Institute for ..."

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