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sarcosine

American

[sahr-kuh-seen, -sin] / ˈsɑr kəˌsin, -sɪn /

noun

Chemistry.

a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.

Etymology

Origin of sarcosine

< German Sarkosin (1847), apparently irregular derivative from Greek sárx, stem sark- flesh, and German -in -ine ²

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“We realized it has nothing to do with sarcosine, but it has everything to do with pipecolic acid,” Kachroo told Salon.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

In laboratory tests, they found that adding sarcosine to prostate cells caused benign cells to become cancerous and invasive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The researchers hope that drugs that stop sarcosine from working could effectively contain prostate cancer and maybe even have implications for other cancer treatments.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to the study, scanning for sarcosine proved a more accurate mode of cancer detection than scanning for the PSA protein.

From Time Magazine Archive

These products are carbon dioxide, formic acid, ammonia, methyl-amine, and sarcosine, the last three being of course in combination with the excess of hydrochloric acid.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

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