tacrolimus

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Chemical structure of tacrolimus
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From translingual t(sukubaensis) +‎ (m)acrol(ide) +‎ -imus (immunosuppressant).

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tacrolimus (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) An immunosuppressive drug obtained from Streptomyces tsukubaensis used mainly after organ transplantation.
    • 2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI:
      Itoh, S. & Navia, M. A. Structure comparison of native and mutant human recombinant FKBP12 complexes with the immunosuppressant drug FK506 (tacrolimus) .

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