Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various organic sulfur compounds having a sulfonyl group attached to two carbon atoms.
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- noun chemistry any of a class or
organic compounds that have asulfonyl functional group attached to twocarbon atoms ;drugs of this structure have been used to treatleprosy
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Examples
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To determine whether the enhanced killing of sulindac-treated cancer cells by TBHP involved reduction of sulindac to sulindac sulfide, the active inhibitor of cyclooxygenases, the experiments described above were repeated using sulindac sulfone, which is not a substrate for MsrA (unpublished data) or a COX inhibitor
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Maria Marchetti et al. 2009
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The patent covers neurotherapeutic pharmaceutical formulation for cefazoline sulfone, cefazoline sulfoxide, ceftriaxone sulfoxide, and ceftriaxone sulfone for treating neurological disease and behavioral and cognitive disorders.
Rexahn Pharma Is Considerably Undervalued Based on Prospects, Recent Developments - Seeking Alpha 2011
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Recent research has investigated one more option, Johnson reported -- that of toltrazuril sulfone or ponazuril given at a loading dose along with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to improve uptake of the medications.
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The Stratasys systems also work with polycarbonate, polyphenylene sulfone and ABS as well as other materials.
The Gadgeteer 2010
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Click on an prevacid bone or generic/brand sulfone to cirrhosis for effect about the empujar in our database.
Wii-volution 2010
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According to the RealGreenGirl blog, Appleton replaced BPA with diphenyl sulfone, which she notes is not one of the 200 (out of 8,000) chemicals the Environmental Protection Agency has tested for safety.
TreeHugger 2010
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Click on an prevacid bone or generic/brand sulfone to cirrhosis for effect about the empujar in our database.
Wii-volution 2010
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A non-calcemic sulfone version of the vitamin D3 analog seocalcitol (EB 1089): chemical synthesis, biological evaluation and potency enhancement of the anticancer drug adriamycin.
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A non-calcemic sulfone version of the vitamin D3 analog seocalcitol (EB 1089): chemical synthesis, biological evaluation and potency enhancement of the anticancer drug adriamycin.
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Rosenthal PJ, Olson JE, Lee GK, Palmer JT, Klaus JL, et al. (1996) Antimalarial effects of vinyl sulfone cysteine proteinase inhibitors.
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