Biochemistry. a quaternary ammonium cation, C5H14N+O, one of the B-complex vitamins, found in the lecithin of many plants and animals.
choline hydroxide, C5H15NO2, the viscous, strongly alkaline commercial form of this compound, usually synthesized, used as a feed supplement, especially for poultry, and in medicine in certain liver conditions.
choline chloride, C5H14ClNO.
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They also showed that treating these cells with extra choline, a nutrient found in foods such as meat, fish, eggs, and broccoli, could reverse many of these effects.
The researchers hope their findings will lead to clinical studies of choline.
They argued that because trimethylamine was not obtained in this case choline was not present.
Without the choline, lecithin would be a di-fatty acid derivative of glycero-phosphoric acid.
From choline it may be separated by recrystallising the mercuric precipitate from hot water.
It is a product of the decomposition of choline, betaine, and neuridine, when these substances are distilled with potash.
An atom of hydrogen from the choline, CH2, group, being replaced by hydroxyl.