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BUTYRIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or producing butyric acid

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

butyric acid (an unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter)

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Barbiturate compounds bind to the gamma amino butyric acid (GABA)-A receptor, thereby increasing the influx of chloride ions into the neuron and subsequently causing hyperpolarization, which produces a decrease in neuronal transmission.

(Barbiturate, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, catalase and urease negative, reduces nitrate, produces butyric acid, gas from peptone-yeast-glucose medium and propionate from lactate, coagulase and indole, and does not ferment carbohydrates or liquefy gelatin.

(Peptoniphilus indolicus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, indole positive, produce butyric acid and gas in peptone yeast extract medium with glucose, urease negative, and does not reduce nitrate, produce coagulase, hydrolyze esculin or starch, liquefy gelatin, ferment carbohydrates, or produce propionate from lactate.

(Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the exact mechanism of CNS depression is unknown, alcohol may act by inhibiting the opening of calcium channels, mediated by the binding of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) to GABA-A receptors, or through inhibitory actions at N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-type glutamate receptors.

(Alcohol, NCI Thesaurus)