| ACE | acetonitrile; acetylcholine esterase; acute cerebral encephalopathy; acute coronary event; adrenocor... |
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| AcEst | acetyl esterase |
| ANAE | alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase |
| BSSE | bile salt-stimulated esterase |
| ES | ejection sound; elastic stocking; electrical stimulus, electrical stimulation; electroshock; emergen... |
| LH-RH | Luteinising Hormone-Releasing Hormone |
|---|---|
| LRH | Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone |
| LHRH-A | luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist |
| LHRHa | leuteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue |
| PTH/PTHrP | Parathyroid hormone/parathyroid-hormone-related peptide |
| pilocarpine esterase | <enzyme> Hydrolyzes pilocarpine to pilocarpic acid, probably not the same as acetylcholinesterase or butyrylcholinesterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
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| pregnancy-associated esterase | <enzyme> In baboons, amount of activity correlates with stage of pregnancy; hydrolyzes alpha-naphthyl butyrate in preference to alpha-naphthyl acetate Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: pregnancy esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| procaine esterase | <enzyme> Aspect of EC 3.1.1.1,carboxylesterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| heroin esterase | <enzyme> Hydrolyzes heroin to yield morphine; n-terminal amino acid sequence given in first source Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: 3,6-diacetylmorphine esterase, acetylmorphine carboxyesterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| sex-influenced esterase | <enzyme> Sex hormone-dependent enzyme; liver enzyme may be a precursor of sex-influenced esterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: es-si esterase, liver sex-influenced esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| naphthol as d esterase | <enzyme> Hydrolytic enzyme activity used as a histocytochemical test for the presence of esterases in tissue. Substrate used is 3-hydroxy-4'-nitro-2-naphthanilide chloroacetate (naphthol as-d). Registry number: EC 3.1.- (12 Dec 1998) |
| neurotoxic esterase | <enzyme> Site of biochemical lesion in delayed neuronal degeneration produced by certain organophosphorus esters; insensitive to organophosphorus cpds such as paraoxon, but sensitive to mipafox Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: phenylvalerate esterase, neuropathy target esterase, phenyl valerate hydrolase, nte, lymphocyte neuropathy target esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| norcocaine esterase | <enzyme> Aspect of EC 3.1.1.1,carboxylesterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| dithiothreitol tetraacetate S-acetyl esterase | <enzyme> Hydrolyzes dithiothreitol tetraactate to dithiothreitol; involved in the ester-mediated prevention of oxidative stress induced cell damage in liver Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: dttac-s-acetyl esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| indoxyl esterase | <enzyme> Reagent-strip leukocyte esterase (lce) tests for this activity Registry number: EC 3.1.- Synonym: leukocyte indoxyl esterase, leukocyte esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| trans-4-coumaroyl esterase | <enzyme> From bacterial and fungal cultures; cleaves coumaric acid from plant cell wall polysaccharides; see also record for feruloyl-4-coumaroyl esterase Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: trans-p-coumaroyl esterase, p-coumaroyl esterase, p-coumaric acid esterase (26 Jun 1999) |
| trichodermin esterase | <enzyme> Mucor racemosus inducible enzyme which deacetylates trichodermin to trichodermol Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- Synonym: trichodermin deacetylase (26 Jun 1999) |
| erythromycin esterase | <enzyme> Hydrolyzes the lactone ring of erythromycin Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| ES46.5K esterase | <enzyme> Hepatic, microsomal enzyme that catalyses hydrolysis of phthalate esters Registry number: EC 3.1.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| esterase | <enzyme> An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of organic esters to release an alcohol or thiol and acid. The term could be applied to enzymes that hydrolyse carboxylate, phosphate and sulphate esters, but is more often restricted to the first class of substrate. (18 Nov 1997) |