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- noun organic chemistry A
phorbol that acts as anactivator for aprotein kinase
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Examples
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Combining it with other agents, in particular one called prostratin, makes it even more effective-at least, in a Petri dish.
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The development of a compound called prostratin is a prime example.
PHARMACY ISLAND 2007
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Cox shipped samples back to NCI, where lab tests found activity against HIV; today prostratin is in the final stages of animal testing by the AIDS Research Alliance in West Hollywood, Calif.
PHARMACY ISLAND 2007
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In a study led by David Schaffer and Adam Arkin of the University of California, Berkeley, around 80% of latent HIV became active in cell cultures treated with a combination of SAHA and prostratin.
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In 2008, however, Paul Wender of Stanford University found a way of synthesising it from the oil of the purging croton plant, which is abundant, and he has gone on to create tweaked versions of the molecule that, he claims, are 1,000 times more potent than prostratin.
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More powerful variants of prostratin are now in the offing.
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Preliminary research suggests that prostratin may also prevent copies of the purged virus which are circulating in the bloodstream from integrating themselves back into healthy immune cells.
bilby commented on the word prostratin
I'm not taking this definition lying down.
February 5, 2016