nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) An organic coenzyme involved in biological oxidation and reduction reactions.
- 2017 March 24, Tom Bawden, Not getting any older may be possibility after key discovery, in the i, № 1,975, page 15/5:
- The treatment in mice involved boosting their levels of Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) – a natural protein that already controls DNA repair in our body.
Synonyms
[edit]- (organic coenzyme): codehydrogenase I, coenzyme I, diphosphopyridine nucleotide (DPN), nadide (NAD⁺)
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[edit]organic coenzyme
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Further reading
[edit]Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia