Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of antibiotics produced by the soil actinomycete Streptomyces caespitosus that inhibit DNA synthesis and are used against bacteria and cancerous tumor cells.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a
family ofaziridine -containingnatural productsisolated from thefilamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as achemotherapeutic agent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cells are dividing, but the authors showed that proliferation is not necessary for elongation, in experiments with mitomycin C and aphidicolin.
Randomly growing an embryo. It can work. - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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National Geographic Nikon's picked its best microscopic images for 2008 and there's some stunners this year -- like this high-mag view of the antibiotic powder mitomycin.
Boing Boing 2008
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ANTITUMOR Immune enhancement, producing a synergistic effect by the combination of glucuronoxylomannan with mitomycin C
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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Detection and further reported mitomycin outcomes of mitonafide inaccurate.
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I had the opportunity to watch the finest at Sloan Kettering apply their nostrums - FDA approved drugs such as metatrexate and adriamycin and “compassionate” exemption drugs like mitomycin.
F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I suggest that my wife and I would have preferred her last days to be on a macrobiotic diet than on mitomycin.
F.D.A. Takes Aim at Herbal Cancer ‘Cures’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Anthropology; vice president, Yale College Student Union; co-authored published abstract on using the antibiotic mitomycin in glaucoma surgery.
USATODAY.com 2003
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In addition to such physical agents as ultraviolet and various other kinds of radiation, we know of many chemical inducers, such as the organic peroxides, ethyleneimines, and mitomycin.
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The randomized, open-label, multi-center study n~450 will compare Urocidin with mitomycin C for treating patients suffering from non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
unknown title 2011
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(A) We counted the number of fibroblasts in a microscopic counting chamber before or after treated with each concentration of mitomycin-C (0, 1, 5 or 10 µg/ml) for 24 h.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010
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