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Definition of "glucuronidation" [glucuronidation]

  • The reaction of a biological substance with glucuronic acid (noun)

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Use "glucuronidation" in a sentence
  • "Prolongs its half life from 14 minutes to a 9-hour survival in the blood circulation by conjugating with (locking onto) sulfur and glucuronate in the liver (called glucuronidation)."
  • "The sites of glucuronidation reactions are substrates having an oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur bond."
  • "Conjugation glucuronidation and other mechanisms of metabolic clearance of BPA thus vary throughout life."