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Chemical Compound Review

diethylmethyl     pentane

Synonyms: pentan-3-yl, AC1L3I7W, 3-Pentyl, (CH3CH2)2CH, 23443-59-6, ...
 
 
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Disease relevance of pentane

 

Psychiatry related information on pentane

  • The results of the study indicate that anemia with increased globular volume of erythrocytes, elevated serum gamma-glutamyl-transferase activity, increased postprandial cholalemia, and increased elimination of pentane in the breath can be considered suitable markers for the early diagnosis of alcohol abuse [5].
 

High impact information on pentane

 

Chemical compound and disease context of pentane

 

Biological context of pentane

  • Mean (+/-SE) exhalation rates (pmol/kg b.wt./min) in 11 subjects were 2.4 +/- 0.6 for ethane and 1.5 +/- 1.3 for pentane [15].
  • The age-related increase in pentane production suggests that oxidative stress may play a role in the aging process in humans [16].
  • 4. The curve of the steady-state inactivation parameter (h infinity) for the Na current against membrane potential was shifted by the pentane in a hyperpolarizing direction (at h infinity = 0.5 this shift was approx. -15 mV in 275 microM-pentane) and the slope at all potentials was reduced [17].
  • 1. The anaesthetic effects of aqueous solutions of the n-alkanes pentane to nonane on the propagated action potential of squid axons have been investigated for a range of axon diameters [18].
  • Maximum ethane and pentane correlated with gestational age (r = -0.42, p = 0.03 and r = -0.52, p = 0.005, respectively) and birth weight (r = -0.38, p = 0.05 and r = -0.59, p = 0.001, respectively) [19].
 

Anatomical context of pentane

 

Associations of pentane with other chemical compounds

 

Gene context of pentane

  • Plasma antioxidant micronutrient status, breath pentane output, plasma lipid peroxides, malondialdehyde and viral load were measured at baseline and at 3 months [24].
  • Crystals have been obtained of seryl-tRNA synthetase from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus, using mixed solutions of ammonium sulphate and methane pentane diol [29].
  • The activation energy for the decay of benzoylnitrene in pentane is -3.20 +/- 0.02 kcal/mol [30].
  • The eluate obtained from PBA column is then chromatographed on a reversed-phase C18 column with a mobile phase containing pentane- and heptanesulfonate as ion-pair reagents [31].
  • Ethane and pentane in breath are markers of oxidative stress, produced by ROS-mediated lipid peroxidation of n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), but little is known about other n-alkanes in normal human breath [32].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of pentane

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