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OXIDIZED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen

Example:

the oxidized form of iodine

Synonyms:

oxidised; oxidized

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Participle:

oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb oxidize

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 Context examples: 

The substrate that is oxidized is regarded as a hydrogen donor.

(Oxidoreductase, NCI Thesaurus)

Fatty acids are oxidized inside the mitochondrial matrix but the fatty acids to be oxidized come from the cytosol.

(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Oxidized LDL stimulates inflammatory signaling by neighboring endothelial cells, releasing chemokines and cytokines such as M-CSF and MCP-1 and recruiting monocytes into the arterial wall.

(LDL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

L-carnitine, the biologically active form of carnitine, is a carrier molecule that transports activated long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) from the cytosol to mitochondria where fatty acids are oxidized, resulting in ATP production.

(L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

In glycolysis, the six-carbon sugar glucose is oxidized and split in two halves, to create two molecules of pyruvate (3 carbons each) from each molecule of glucose.

(Glycolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

First, 3-phosphoglycerate is oxidized and then transaminated to produce 3-phosphoserine.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The scientists formed crystal complexes of DNA, polymerase, and oxidized nucleotides.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

Under normal conditions, lysosomes envelop oxidized proteins and digest them via enzymes called proteases, but in the cold-exposed human neurons, the proteases leaked from the lysosomes and digested nearby microtubules.

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)

This overabundance of iron then poisons the cell, killing it as the reduced iron becomes oxidized.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

Results of the experiments showed that light rapidly photo-oxidized the fresh oil, changing it within a few days into compounds that reduced the effectiveness of dispersants by at least 30 percent.

(Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills, National Science Foundation)