What does the word Leucomaine mean?
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A substance, resembling an alkaloid in its properties, formed in living tissues by retrograde metamorphosis.
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[ Greek] An alkaloid developed in living animal tissues as a result of the normal vital processes. The l’s are divided into( A) Alloxuric bases including adenine, hypoxanthine, guanine, xanthine, heteroxanthine, paraxanthine, carnine, pseudoxanthine, gerontine and spermine, which are related to uric acid, and are probably derivatives of hydrocyanic acid( uric-acid group of l’s); ( B) a group comprising creatine and creatinine, crusocreatinine, xanthocreatinine, amphicreatine, one or two other bases, and methyl-hydantoine( creatine group); and( C) a miscellaneous group comprising salamandarine, aromine, reducine, parareducine, and other bases. The bases found in cod-liver oil are also by some regarded as l’s. Paraxanthine, gerontine, xanthocreatine, and salamandarine are actively poisonous, and some of the other l’s are physiologically active.
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