Thiamine is an English word with synonyms like aneurin or thiamin. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Thiamine in a sentence
Thiamine meaning
One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates.
Synonyms of Thiamine
Using Thiamine
- The main meaning on this page is: One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates.
- Useful related words include: vitamin b1, b vitamin, vitamin b, vitamin b complex.
- In the example corpus, thiamine often appears in combinations such as: of thiamine, thiamine deficiency, thiamine is.
Context around Thiamine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thiamine
- In this selection, "thiamine" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reaction, deficiency, diphosphokinase, deficiency, diphosphokinase and atp stand out and add context to how "thiamine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a soluble thiamine transporter that and amount of thiamine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thiamine" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and abolitionists, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thiamine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Among those compounds are thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) and adenosine thiamine triphosphate (AThTP). (12 words)
Antagonists Thiamine in foods can be degraded in a variety of ways. (12 words)
About 80% of intracellular thiamine is phosphorylated and most is bound to proteins. (13 words)
The synthesis of thiamine diphosphate (ThDP), also known as thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) or cocarboxylase, is catalyzed by an enzyme called thiamine diphosphokinase according to the reaction thiamine + ATP → ThDP + AMP (EC 2.7.6.2). (35 words)
The salt thiamine mononitrate, rather than thiamine hydrochloride, is used for food fortification, as the mononitrate is more stable, and does not absorb water from natural humidity (is non-hygroscopic), whereas thiamine hydrochloride is hygroscopic. (35 words)
In female salmon that are returning to rivers and streams to spawn, thiamine deficiency can be passed on to their many hatchlings, which suffer problems swimming and experience high rates of death, researchers say. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The synthesis of thiamine diphosphate (ThDP), also known as thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) or cocarboxylase, is catalyzed by an enzyme called thiamine diphosphokinase according to the reaction thiamine + ATP → ThDP + AMP (EC 2.7.6.2).
Deficiency Thiamine derivatives and thiamine-dependent enzymes are present in all cells of the body, thus a thiamine deficiency would seem to adversely affect all of the organ systems.
In most bacteria and in eukaryotes, ThMP is hydrolyzed to thiamine, which may then be pyrophosphorylated to ThDP by thiamine diphosphokinase (thiamine + ATP → ThDP + AMP, EC 2.7.6.2).
The salt thiamine mononitrate, rather than thiamine hydrochloride, is used for food fortification, as the mononitrate is more stable, and does not absorb water from natural humidity (is non-hygroscopic), whereas thiamine hydrochloride is hygroscopic.
Alcoholics may have thiamine deficiency because of the following: * Inadequate nutritional intake: Alcoholics tend to intake less than the recommended amount of thiamine.
Among those compounds are thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) and adenosine thiamine triphosphate (AThTP).
A specific binding protein called thiamine-binding protein (TBP) has been identified in rat serum and is believed to be a hormone-regulated carrier protein important for tissue distribution of thiamine.
In some tissues, thiamine uptake and secretion appears to be mediated by a soluble thiamine transporter that is dependent on Na + and a transcellular proton gradient.
Of these, whole grains contain more thiamine than refined grains, as thiamine is found mostly in the outer layers of the grain and in the germ (which are removed during the refining process).
The inefficient utilization of any thiamine that does reach the cells will further exacerbate the thiamine deficiency.
The majority of thiamine present in the intestine is in the pyrophosphorylated form ThDP, but when thiamine arrives on the serosal side of the intestine it is often in the free form.
Thiamine deficiency in ruminants Polioencephalomalacia (PEM) is the most common thiamine deficiency disorder in young ruminant and nonruminant animals.
When thiamine mononitrate dissolves in water, it releases nitrate (about 19% of its weight) and is thereafter absorbed as the thiamine cation.
Horsetail contains a compound called thiaminase, which can break down thiamine – otherwise known as vitamin B1.
In female salmon that are returning to rivers and streams to spawn, thiamine deficiency can be passed on to their many hatchlings, which suffer problems swimming and experience high rates of death, researchers say.
About 80% of intracellular thiamine is phosphorylated and most is bound to proteins.
Absorption and transport Absorption Thiamine is released by the action of phosphatase and pyrophosphatase in the upper small intestine.
Alcoholic brain disease Nerve cells and other supporting cells (such as glial cells) of the nervous system require thiamine.
Antagonists Thiamine in foods can be degraded in a variety of ways.
A therapeutic diagnosis can be tried by supplementing thiamine only in the affected bird.
Common combinations with thiamine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of thiamine 13×
- thiamine deficiency 10×
- thiamine is 6×
- to thiamine 3×
- thiamine mononitrate 3×
- thiamine by 3×
- as thiamine 2×
- thiamine diphosphokinase 2×
- thiamine atp 2×
- by thiamine 2×