putrescine (redirected from Putrizene)

putrescine /pu·tres·cine/ (pu-tres´in) a polyamine precursor of spermidine, first found in decaying meat but now known to occur in almost all tissues and in some bacterial cultures.

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pu·tres·cine (py-trsn)

n.

A crystalline, slightly poisonous, colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine produced by the decarboxylation of ornithine, especially in decaying animal tissue.

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putrescine (pūtres´ēn),

n a foul-smelling toxic ptomaine produced by the decomposition of the amino acid ornithine during the decay of animal tissues, bacillus cultures, and fecal bacteria.

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putrescine

a polyamine first found in decaying meat; small quantities occur in most cells.