Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme found primarily in the liver that catalyzes the hydrolysis of arginine to form urea and ornithine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferment which causes the decomposition of arginin into ornithin and urea. It has been found in the liver, the thymus, lymph glands, the mucosa of the small intestine, etc.
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- noun biochemistry An
enzyme that catalyses thehydrolysis ofarginine to formurea andornithine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Aminoacidopathies (maple syrup urine disease; homocystinuria; cobalamin deficiencies; tyrosinemia; urea cycle defects (ornithine transcarbamylase, carbamyl phosphate synthase, citrullinemia, argininosuccinic aciduria, arginase deficiencies) and non-ketotic hyperglycinemia)
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D. Dakin he investigated arginase, the ferment which hydrolyses arginine into urea and ornithine, and later he discovered agmatine in herring roe and devised a method for preparing it.
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B: Primary aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) from C57Bl/6 mice were cultured for 48 hours in the presence of media conditioned by C57Bl/6 M1 or M2 MØ which were polarized in the presence of the PPARγ agonist pioglitazone (Pio), the PPARγ antagonist GW9662 (GW), or the arginase inhibitor Nor-NOHA.
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To test whether the predominance of the arginase expression over that of the iNOS endowed M2 MØ with reparative capabilities, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) were cultured with MØ-conditioned medium.
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In the present study, we used Arg I and Arg II as surrogate markers of M1 and M2 MØ since these two isoforms of arginase were distinctly upregulated in bone marrow-derived M1 and M2 MØ polarized in vitro.
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El Kasmi KC, Qualls JE, Pesce JT, Smith AM, Thompson RW, et al. (2008) Toll-like receptor-induced arginase 1 in macrophages thwarts effective immunity against intracellular pathogens.
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Elevated levels of the enzyme arginase contribute to vascular eye damage and Medical College of Geor ...
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Jenkinson CP, Griscavage JM, Kern RM, Arabolos NS, et al. (1995) Co-induction of arginase and nitric oxide synthase in murine macrophages activated by lipopolysaccharide.
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In the periphery, the NO production decrease may reflect an arginase-mediated synthesis of polyamines necessary to trypanosome growth.
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Eichmann K, Modolell M (1998) Alternative metabolic states in murine macrophages reflected by the nitric oxide synthase/arginase balance: competitive regulation by CD4+ T cells correlates with Th1/Th2 phenotype.
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