hyoscyamine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hyoscyamine
First recorded in 1855–60; hyoscyam(us) + -ine 2
Vocabulary lists containing hyoscyamine
Example Sentences
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They then compared the activity of the HDH-encoding gene from A. belladonna with equivalents from other plants, and finally selected the gene from Circe’s jimsonweed as being optimal for hyoscyamine and scopolamine production.
From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020
Srinivasan and Smolke4 engineered the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to make the drugs hyoscyamine and scopolamine from glucose and amino acids.
From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020
In this module, littorine is converted to hyoscyamine and then to scopolamine.
From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020
Srinivasan and Smolke have overcome these challenges to produce a strain of S. cerevisiae that converts simple sugars and amino acids into two tropane alkaloids, hyoscyamine and scopolamine.
From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020
But there was no record of his having bought hyoscyarnus, which was the deadly henbane used in the medicine dropper-nor was there any other record of hyoscyamine against him.
From Raspberry Jam by Wells, Carolyn
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