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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To introduce hydroxyl into (a compound).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In chem., to cause to combine with the radical hydroxyl.

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  • verb chemistry To introduce a hydroxyl group into a compound

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Examples

  • (As shown below, sufficiently high aspartame doses, which transiently exceed the liver's capacity to hydroxylate phenylalanine, can also potentiate seizures in rodents, whether these seizures are generated by drugs, electroshock, or inhalation of fluorothyl.)

    Santa Fe Pediatrician Regales Hawaii Legislative Committee with Dangers of Aspartame 2008

  • It appears that boron may be needed to activate hydroxylate specific steroid hormones such as vitamin D, testosterone, and estradiol.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • It appears that boron may be needed to activate hydroxylate specific steroid hormones such as vitamin D, testosterone, and estradiol.

    The New Super-Nutrition Ph.D. Richard A. Passwater 1991

  • These animals hydroxylate proline by some alternative means.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Nick Anthis none@example.com 2010

  • PHD2 seems to be responsible for the hydroxylation, and hence the proteolysis of, HIF-α, PHD3 appears to hydroxylate the α-subunit during reoxygenation.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • PHD3 appears to hydroxylate the α-subunit during reoxygenation.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • PHD3 appears to hydroxylate the α-subunit during reoxygenation.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • (only 13% of the FAD is utilized to hydroxylate the substrate phenol, when resorcinol is used as substrate, the reaction is not significantly different from the reaction of the wild type enzyme [25]) [25] R281M

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  • 201, 215-219 (1982) [4] Royce, P.M.; Barnes, M.J.: Failure of highly purified lysyl hydroxylase to hydroxylate lysyl residues in the non-helical regions of collagen.

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