tacrolimus
English
Chemical structure of tacrolimus
Etymology
From translingual t(sukubaensis) + (m)acrol(ide) + -imus (“immunosuppressant”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /təˈkɹoʊ.lɪm.əs/
Noun
tacrolimus (uncountable)
- (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, :
- Itoh, S. & Navia, M. A. Structure comparison of native and mutant human recombinant FKBP12 complexes with the immunosuppressant drug FK506 (tacrolimus) .
Synonyms
- fujimycin
- FK-506
Hypernyms
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