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cuprizone

cuprizone noun: a copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases.

Noun

cuprizone (uncountable)

  1. A copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases
    • Feeding of cuprizone (bis-cyclohexanone oxaldihydrazone) to young adult mice induces a synchronous consistent demyelination (Matsushima and Morell, 2001; Stidworthy et al., 2003).2015 July 29, Sarrabeth Stone, Wensheng Lin, “The unfolded protein response in multiple sclerosis”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI

Questions about cuprizone

What does cuprizone mean?
Cuprizone means a copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases.
What part of speech is cuprizone?
Cuprizone is a noun.

Words near cuprizone in the dictionary

  1. cuprimyxin
  2. cuprine
  3. cuprite
  4. cuprites
  5. cupriuresis
  6. cuprizone
  7. cupro
  8. cupro-
  9. cuproadamite
  10. cuproammonium
  11. cuproan

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