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scotophobin
[ skoh-tuh-foh-bin ]
noun
- a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
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Other Words From
- sco·to·pho·bic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scotophobin1
First recorded in 1965–70; scotophob(ia) ( def ) + -in 2( def )
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Example Sentences
His name for it: scotophobin, from the Greek words for "darkness" and "fear."
To check his conclusion, Ungar asked Wolfgang Parr, a University of Houston chemist, to duplicate scotophobin using only off-the-shelf chemicals.
Finally, he narrowed the search to a single peptide�consisting of a sequence of 15 amino acids�that he named scotophobin, from the Greek words for dark and fear.
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