(organic chemistry) A pyrrolidine alkaloid found mainly in coca leaves, extracted as a thick, pungent, pale-yellow oil of a burning taste.
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hygrine
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Editorial note
Hygrine is a not a metabolite of cuscohygrine, it's in fact the other way round: hygrine is the precursor and cuscohygrine is the metabolite.
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(organic chemistry) A pyrrolidine alkaloid found mainly in coca leaves, extracted as a thick, pungent, pale-yellow oil of a burning taste.
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noun
(organic chemistry) A pyrrolidine alkaloid found mainly in coca leaves, extracted as a thick, pungent, pale-yellow oil of a burning taste.
Example sentences
Hygrine is a not a metabolite of cuscohygrine, it's in fact the other way round: hygrine is the precursor and cuscohygrine is the metabolite.
No, it does not appear to be true that hygrine is found in nightshades.
I'm no chemist, but according to wikipedia, cuscohygrine is found in belladona plants and it metabolizes into hygrine.
The author of that comment seems to be onto something because hygrine is indeed found in nightshades as well as in coca.
Cuscohygrine does occur in those plants yet it's precursor hygrine does not.
Where are you getting that hygrine is found in nightshades?
Is it a real hygrine problem or something?
As you would expect, this is covered in the actual paper [0]: > Therefore, the 3rd molecule detected in the brain tissues of our subjects, hygrine (an alkaloid present in the leaves of Erythroxylum spp.
How it then gets there without us being able to detect hygrine could be because it only occurs in very small concentrations or is produced and then quickly and wholly converted in to its cusco metabolite, or that it's produced through a different biosynthetic pathway.
Quote examples
The first reference on that page is "The role of hygrine in the biosynthesis of cuscohygrine and hyoscyamine"
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How do you use hygrine in a sentence?
Hygrine is a not a metabolite of cuscohygrine, it's in fact the other way round: hygrine is the precursor and cuscohygrine is the metabolite.
What does hygrine mean?
(organic chemistry) A pyrrolidine alkaloid found mainly in coca leaves, extracted as a thick, pungent, pale-yellow oil of a burning taste.
What part of speech is hygrine?
hygrine is commonly used as noun.