See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
playa(dictionary)
playa(medicine)
playa(dictionary)
playa(encyclopedia)
playa (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
HOTEL PLAYA(tourism)
Med Playa Hotels(tourism)
Playa del Carmen(tourism)
Boccaccio Playa, SICAV, S.A.(finance)

Glutamine (medicine) and playa (iou)


Glutamine (medicine)


glutamine
<amino acid> One of the 20 amino acids commonly found (and directly coded for) in proteins. It is the amide at the _ carboxyl of the amino acid glutamate. Glutamine can participate in covalent cross linking reactions between proteins, by forming peptide like bonds by a transamidation reaction with lysine residues. This reaction, catalysed by clotting factor XIII stabilises the aggregates of fibrin formed during blood clotting. Media for culture of animal cells contain some 10 times more glutamine than Other amino acids, the excess presumably acting as a carbon source.


playa (iou)



playa noun. Orig. US. M19.
[Spanish = shore, beach, coast, from late Latin plagia: see PLAGE.]
A flat area of silt or sand, free of vegetation and usu. salty, lying at the bottom of a desert basin and dry except after rain; (more fully playa lake) a temporary lake formed after rain in such an area. M19.
In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a beach. M19.
Geography. Flat alluvial coastland. L19.