tacrolimus
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Etymology
From tsukuba macrolide immunosuppressant (after Streptomyces tsukubaensis).
Noun
tacrolimus (uncountable)
- An immunosuppressive drug 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, :
- 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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See also
tacrolimus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia