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Definition of Purines
1. purine [n] - See also: purine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purines
Literary usage of Purines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"This variable occurrence of xanthine-oxidase may be seen in the following table :—
The Formation of the Oxy-purines from the Amino-purines. ..."
2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1920)
"Aside from the purines ingested as adenine and guanine or their degradation
products there occur in plant foods two important methylated purines, ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1916)
"THE METHYL purines 149. Aside from the purines ingested as adenine and guanine
or their degradation products there occur in plant foods two important ..."
4. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"purines. Uric acid, xanthine, hypoxanthine, guanine, ... bromine and others are
classed together in the special group of compounds known as the purines. ..."
5. A Concise History of Chemistry by Thomas Percy Hilditch (1911)
"Amido Acids, Proteins, and purines—The alkaloids and the terpenes are exclusively
vegetable substances, the sugars occur chiefly in the vegetable, ..."
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