In these a layer of cells occurs (see Chapter IV) filled with minute crystals of one of the purine bodies (xanthin or uric acid).
The dorsal reflecting layer is made up of cells containing numerous minute crystals of some purin base, either xanthin or urates, or both.
I read in another that we might as well eat poison, so full were they, too, of qualities ending in xanthin poison.
On the other hand, the amount of tri-methyl xanthin eliminated was only 3 per cent in the dog and not quite 1 per cent in the rabbit.
On a priori grounds we should expect alcohol to be oxidized in the liver along with leucin, tyrosin, uric acid, xanthin bodies, and various amido bodies.
When thus taxed all other toxic substances including uric acid and the xanthin bodies pass through the liver unoxidized to appear in the urine.
If the oxidation capacity is overtaxed, an excess of uric acid, xanthin bodies, and other toxic substances will get by this portal and reach the active tissues or the kidneys.
Vaughn[211] advances this scientific argument against the drinking of coffee by children under seven years of age: In proportion to body weight the young contain more of the xanthin bases than adults.
The xanthin group is almost without any excitatory action, and its metabolic end products are constant.
The spinal and muscular hyperic excitability produced by caffein is, in his opinion, due to the methyl groups attached to the xanthin nucleus.
Others, however, are of the opinion that the amount of xanthinpresent in the bran is so small as not to be considered, especially when, by the removal of the xanthin, valuable mineral matter is also removed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xanthin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
