tacrolimus

English
Tacrolimus

Etymology

From tsukuba macrolide immunosuppressant (after Streptomyces tsukubaensis).

Noun

tacrolimus (uncountable)

  1. 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, DOI:10.1038/nature07839:
      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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