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What does cadaverine mean?

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  1. A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH2(CH2)5NH2. Cadaverine is also known by the names 1,5-pentanediamine and pentamethylenediamine.
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While pigs are a fairly decent approximation of humans in such contexts, the study failed to detect two compounds, cadaverine and putrescine, usually found in decaying human cadavers.
The precipitate contains the picrate of trimethylenediamine, mixed with the picrates of cadaverine and creatinine.
His visits have acclimatized him to the smell of cadaverine, which is intensified by the midday heat.
Decaying meat produces its own peculiar scent molecules, I later learned, with names like putrescine and cadaverine.
The noxious gases putrescine and cadaverine get on your clothes too.
Measurements of the fluorescence of dansyl cadaverine attached to Gln 41 indicate substantial inhibition of the initial association of G-actin-S1 into longitudinal dimers.

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