cuprizone

C3U1P3R1I1Z10O1N1E1

noun

A copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases

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Meanings

nouncuprizone (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineA copper-chelating agent that inhibits monoamine oxidases

    Feeding of cuprizone (bis-cyclohexanone oxaldihydrazone) to young adult mice induces a synchronous consistent demyelination (Matsushima and Morell, 2001; Stidworthy et al., 2003).

    2015 July 29, Sarrabeth Stone, Wensheng Lin, “The unfolded protein response in multiple sclerosis”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI
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