Sentences with phrase «similar chemical structures»

We know that glucose and vitamin C have similar chemical structures, so what happens when the sugar levels go up?

Since glucose and vitamin C have similar chemical structures, it's easy and cheap to produce fake vitamin C from sugar, typically using corn.

He examines several well - studied receptors — the bacterial aspartate receptor (Tar), human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and human brain - derived neurotrophin receptor (BDNFR)-- and comes to a conclusion that they all have similar chemical structures with or without their corresponding ligands.

They also note that other steroids with similar chemical structures can regenerate in the same way, including dienogest, an oral contraceptive, and dienedione, an illicit anabolic steroid.

For example, molecules with sulfur groups tend to produce a «garlicky» smell, and molecules with a similar chemical structure to vanillin, from vanilla beans, predicts whether subjects will perceive a «bakery» smell.

Many animal studies have demonstrated that several classes of flame retardants act as endocrine - disrupting chemicals and interfere with thyroid homeostasis (function), partly because they share a similar chemical structure with thyroid hormones, Sosa said.

As rice plants absorb phosphate, a nutrient needed for growth, they also take up arsenic, which has a similar chemical structure.

polychlorinated biphenyls (or PCBs) A family of 209 chlorine - based compounds with a similar chemical structure.

All types of sugar have ~ 4 calories per gram and most have similar chemical structure and nutritional content (scant amount of vitamins and minerals).

All fats have a similar chemical structure: a chain of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms.

If the authors mean to say that some of the more than 750 chemicals added throughout the fracking process can be likened to PCBs or pesticides because of similar chemical structure, they might spend a bit more ink supporting that observation, and less making scary allegations.

Not exact matches

Its chemical structure is similar to that of candle wax.

Although the physical structure in L1527 is similar to that found in IRAS 16293 - 2422A, the chemical composition is much different.

The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype, but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in clinical use or investigational compounds in development.

Hofmann knew that quinine, the only effective treatment for malaria and thus vital to the British Empire, was also an amine, with a chemical structure very similar to that of several coal tar components, including naphtha.

During the PET scans, participants were given a chemical — similar in structure to an antidepressant but not a high enough dose to have a pharmacological effect — labeled with a radioactive carbon.

It also has a similar structure to some other organic weak bases that have been used to catalyze the type of chemical reaction needed to form these gels — the formation of ester bonds to create a polyester.

In materials science, researchers rely on a similar phenomenon to study the structures of materials that will eventually be used in chemical catalysis, batteries, solar applications and more.

This molecule, which the researchers call pteronenone, had a structure similar to that of chemicals which absorb the Sun's damaging ultraviolet rays and are carried by other planktonic creatures (Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol 60, p 780).

But some researchers have challenged that theory, noting that chemical activity around hydrothermal vents could produce similar structures.

What they found was totally new: an unknown crystal structure with a chemical composition similar to perovskite.

Examining heroin's chemical structure provides clues to the manufacturing process used to turn opium poppies to heroin, but if manufacturers from different regions adopt similar processes, it's harder to tell where a sample came from.

This week, a group of researchers unveiled a tool that could help streamline the process: a vast database of safety information that will allow users to compare new chemicals to existing compounds with similar structures, and flag potential risks.

Becker serves as a consultant for Austria - based gas analysis instrument - maker Ionicon Analytik, GmbH, which makes proton transfer reaction — mass spectrometry (PTR — MS) technology that the company claims can distinguish substances having very similar molecular structures as well as correctly identify explosives, chemical warfare agents and substances that could be combined to create a bomb.

The secret, Fourkas explains, is building the 3 - D structures from a special chemical resin, similar to the composite fillings used by dentists, that hardens under low - energy laser light.

In more recent years, perovskites have expanded to a class of compounds with a similar structure and chemical recipe — a 1:1:3 ingredient ratio — that can be tweaked with different elements to make different «flavors.»

The chemical structure of this pig mucin is very similar to the human molecule.

Further, this single instrument provides a wider field than similar chemical techniques and allows scientists to see individual particles without additional preparation that could modify the native structure.

Its chemical structure is similar to that of bisphenol A (BPA), and like BPA, is can mimic the activity of estrogen, a female sex hormone.

The similarity in chemical structures between F - 53B and PFOS makes it reasonable to assume that they possess similar physicochemical properties and environmental behavior.

Utilizing this structure, we searched chemical databases for scaffolds exerting significant binding interactions similar to (or stronger than) those exerted by ponatinib, determined by comparing their free energies when docked inside of the RIPK2 binding site.

Using molecular modeling (docking) and chemoinformatics analyses, we used the RIPK2 / ponatinib crystal structure and searched in chemical databases for small molecules exerting binding interactions similar to those exerted by ponatinib.

Algorithms similar to those that organise our email, photos and online banking can also be used to find patterns in chemical data that relate to a material's structure and composition.

Combine this with the sticky glucose molecules that leech through the small intestines of people who consume grains, and you have a chemical structure similar to wall - paper glue.

Soy has taken a beating in the popular publications on health and fitness because it contains a substance called phytoestrogen, which has a chemical structure similar to our bodies» naturally produced hormone estrogen.

The chemical structure of isoflavones is very similar to that of our own estrogen.

Examples are certain plastics, chemicals that are petroleum related because their chemical molecular structures are quite similar.

What they don't tell you is that Splenda is actually a chemically modified substance where chlorine is added to the chemical structure, making it more similar to a chlorinated pesticide than something we should be eating or drinking.

The chemical structure of plant sterols is similar to that of cholesterol.

Pesticide residues have chemical structures that are similar to estrogen.

Synthetic hormones, have a chemical structure that may be similar to, but not exactly the same as, the hormones produced by the body.

It began with the research of Richard Willstätter, a German chemist who studied the chemical composition of chlorophyll in 1913 and found that its structure is very similar to that of heme, the oxygen - transporting part of hemoglobin in blood.

They are very similar but not identical to inulin: the difference being in their chemical structures.

These essential fats are long - chain fatty acids, with a slightly different chemical structure to that of flax oil, with some similar benefits to flax oil, plus additional benefits.

In a study, the antioxidant capacity of curcumin was compared to 15 compounds that were similar in chemical structure.

Wrote Stitt: «Proteins are very similar to certain toxins in molecular structure, and the puffing process of putting the grain under fifteen hundred pounds per square inch of pressure and then releasing it may produce chemical changes which turn a nutritious grain into a poisonous substance.»

The chemical structure chlorophyll is very similar to the human blood component — haemoglobin.

This refers to the chemical structure — it is similar to oil and mixes well with oil.

I am assuming that the chemical structure and pharmaceutic properties are similar to ibuprofen.

The next step will be creating similar «nanovalves» using lighter chemicals such as sodium and lithium; Shimizu hopes these new structures will be able to capture lighter gases - hydrogen, in particular.