See Also: Poly(medicine)
POLY HK INV(finance)
poly A(medicine)
poly I(medicine)
poly a-u(medicine)
poly c(medicine)
poly da-dt(medicine)
poly g(medicine)
poly i-c(medicine)
poly u(medicine)

Wolff (iou) and poly i-c (medicine)


Wolff (iou)



Wolff noun. M20.
[Ludwig Wolff (1857-1919), German chemist.]
Chemistry. Wolff rearrangement, a molecular rearrangement, important in the conversion of an organic acid to its next higher homologue, in which a diazoketone loses a molecule of nitrogen and forms a ketene.
Comb.: Wolff-Kishner reduction [Nikolai M. Kishner (1867-1935), Russian chemist] the reduction of an aldehyde or ketone to an alkane by heating the hydrazone or semicarbazone derivative in a strongly basic solution.

poly i-c (medicine)


poly I-c
<chemical> Interferon inducer consisting of a synthetic, mismatched double-stranded RNA. The polymer is made of one strand each of polyinosinic acid and polycytidylic acid.

Pharmacological action: antiviral agents, interferon inducers.

Chemical name: 5'-Inosinic acid, homopolymer, complex with 5'-cytidylic acid homopolymer (1:1)