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- noun The product of a photochemical reaction.
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- noun chemistry Any
product of aphotochemical reaction
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Examples
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A light quantum, in order to be effective as a sensory stimulant, naturally must, in the first instance, create within the cell a primary photoproduct which carries the business further.
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Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A-deficient mice, which lack the enzymes responsible for NER, did not accelerate photoproduct repair.
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UV radiation is absorbed by nucleic acids and induces dimerization of adjacent pyrimidines by cyclobutyl ring formation or other photoproduct linkages, which damage the nucleic acid strand and thus inhibit transcription A previous study indicated that a CPMV-based vaccine that displayed an epitope from canine parvovirus and had been inactivated by UV could still induce protective antibody responses
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