A cyclic form of adenosine monophosphate (adenylic acid) which plays a major role in controlling many enzyme-catalysed processes in living cells.
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Example sentencesExamples
In the 1970s everything in physiology and medicine was explained by cyclic AMP levels going up or down in cells.
The exact mechanism whereby ISM increases platelet cAMP appears to be that of inhibition of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase.
Diurnal changes in the plasma levels of cortisol, epinephrine, cyclic AMP and histamine are thought to be the cause of this exacerbation.
By inhibition of certain enzymes, it allows an increase in the concentration of the ‘second messenger’, cyclic AMP, within cells, enhancing in turn the systems which this activates.
The product of adenyl cyclase is cyclic AMP, which quickly degrades in postmortem brain so it cannot be measured.
Definition of cyclic AMP in US English:
cyclic AMP
(also cAMP)
noun
Biochemistry
A cyclic form of adenosine monophosphate (adenylic acid) that plays a major role in controlling many enzyme-catalyzed processes in living cells.
〔生化〕环腺苷酸
Example sentencesExamples
In the 1970s everything in physiology and medicine was explained by cyclic AMP levels going up or down in cells.
Diurnal changes in the plasma levels of cortisol, epinephrine, cyclic AMP and histamine are thought to be the cause of this exacerbation.
By inhibition of certain enzymes, it allows an increase in the concentration of the ‘second messenger’, cyclic AMP, within cells, enhancing in turn the systems which this activates.
The exact mechanism whereby ISM increases platelet cAMP appears to be that of inhibition of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase.
The product of adenyl cyclase is cyclic AMP, which quickly degrades in postmortem brain so it cannot be measured.