different between adenosine vs hypomethylation

English

From German Adenosin, corresponding to aden(ine) + (rib)os(e) +? -ine.

adenosine (plural adenosines)

(biochemistry, genetics, organic chemistry) A nucleoside derived from adenine and ribose, found in striated muscle tissue. [from 20th c.]
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, p. 82:
  Caffeine acts as an antagonist at receptors in the brain for one of the chemical messengers called adenosine.
- 2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin 2018, p. 27:
  Think of adenosine as a chemical barometer that continuously registers the amount of elapsed time since you woke up this morning.

hypo- +? methylation

hypomethylation (plural hypomethylations)

(genetics) a decrease in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA

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