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sarcosine
[ sahr-kuh-seen, -sin ]
noun
Chemistry.
- a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sarcosine1
< German Sarkosin (1847), apparently irregular derivative from Greek á, stem sark- flesh, and German -in -ine 2
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“We realized it has nothing to do with sarcosine, but it has everything to do with pipecolic acid,” Kachroo told Salon.
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Excitation-inhibition balance can be influenced by the glycine re-uptake inhibitor sarcosine; however, the collapsed coordination observed here was unaffected by such treatment.
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These products are carbon dioxide, formic acid, ammonia, methyl-amine, and sarcosine, the last three being of course in combination with the excess of hydrochloric acid.
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