ACROLEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acrolein mean? 

• ACROLEIN (noun)
  The noun ACROLEIN has 1 sense:

1. a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene

  Familiarity information: ACROLEIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACROLEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

acrolein; propenal

Hypernyms ("acrolein" is a kind of...):

aldehyde (any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids)

 Context examples 

Among them are known or suspected toxicants, carcinogens and respiratory irritants, including nicotine, ammonia, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, acrolein, hydrogen cyanide, phenol, nitrogen oxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, N-Nitrosamines and radionuclides.

(Environmental tobacco smoke, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike ifosfamide, this agent is not metabolized to acrolein or chloroacetaldehyde, metabolites associated with bladder and CNS toxicities.

(Palifosfamide, NCI Thesaurus)

They identified three DNA-damaging compounds, formaldehyde, acrolein and methylglyoxal, whose levels increased in the saliva after vaping.

(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the kidney, dimesna undergoes reduction to the free thiol compound, mesna, which reacts chemically with the urotoxic ifosfamide metabolites acrolein and 4-hydroxy-ifosfamide, resulting in their detoxification.

(Dimesna, NCI Thesaurus)

Mesna is converted to a free thiol compound in the kidney, where it binds to and inactivates acrolein and other urotoxic metabolites of ifosfamide and cyclophosphamide, thereby reducing their toxic effects on the urinary tract during urinary excretion.

(Mesna, NCI Thesaurus)

The type of damage, called a DNA adduct, occurs when toxic chemicals, such as acrolein, react with DNA.

(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Compared with people who don't vape, four of the five e-cigarette users showed increased DNA damage related to acrolein exposure.

(Using Electronic Cigarettes Can Damage DNA, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)