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Definition of Peptones

Peptone
Peptone Pep"tone, n. [Gr. ? cooked.] (Physiol. Chem.) (a) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids. (b) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.

Meaning of Peptones from wikipedia

- thiazoles often indicates that the compound was synthesized in this fashion. Peptones are derived from animal milk or meat digested by proteolysis. In addition...
- Peptone water is a microbial growth medium composed of peptic digest of animal tissue and sodium chloride. The pH of the medium is 7.2±0.2 at 25 °C and...
- Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) is a type of agar growth medium containing peptones. It is used to cultivate dermatophytes and other types of fungi, and can...
- ingredients used to promote growth, including the following: Peptides and casein peptones Vitamins (including B vitamins) Trace elements (e.g. nitrogen, sulfur,...
- gastric pepsin. In addition to proteoses, peptones are also formed at this stage. The difference between peptones and proteoses is that proteoses are precipitated...
- broken down into peptones from which proteins may then be resynthesized, and helped establish the idea of free amino acids instead of peptones being the building...
- glucose (dextrose). OF-glucose deeps contain glucose as a carbohydrate, peptones, bromothymol blue indicator for Hugh-Leifson's OF medium or phenol red...
- yeast extract peptone dextrose, also often abbreviated as YPD, is a complete medium for yeast growth. It contains yeast extract, peptone, double-distilled...
- secretion in the stomach by four methods: 1.) Peptones stimulate duodenal G cells to secrete gastrin. 2.) Peptones stimulate an unknown endocrine cell to release...
- endopeptidases including dipeptidase and aminopeptidases that convert peptones and polypeptides into amino acids. Maltase: converts maltose into glucose...