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What is a reductase?

What is a reductase? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.
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The concentration of androgen receptor and 5 reductase activities in frontal hair follicles is greater than in occipital follicles.
The examples provided in this study focus on the use of HMG CoA reductase inhibitors in the ODB program.
The polyol pathway uses the enzyme aldose reductase to convert glucose to sorbitol.
Total tropinone reductase activity was measured photometrically by NADPH consumption with tropinone as substrate.
Use of 5-ethynyluracil in the manufacture of a medicament for use as a uracil reductase inactivator in cancer chemotherapy.
This would be analogous to other flavoproteins such as mercuric ion reductase, lipoamide dehydrogenase, and thioredoxin reductase.

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