Tacrolimus
"Tacrolimus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A macrolide isolated from the culture broth of a strain of Streptomyces tsukubaensis that has strong immunosuppressive activity in vivo and prevents the activation of T-lymphocytes in response to antigenic or mitogenic stimulation in vitro.
| Descriptor ID |
D016559
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.540.505.810
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| Concept/Terms |
Prograf- Prograf
- Prograft
- Janssen Brand of Tacrolimus
- Cilag Brand of Tacrolimus
- Fujisawa Brand of Tacrolimus
Anhydrous Tacrolimus- Anhydrous Tacrolimus
- Tacrolimus, Anhydrous
- Tacrolimus Anhydrous
- Anhydrous, Tacrolimus
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tacrolimus" by people in Profiles.
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Chaftari AM, Hachem RY, Ramos E, Kassis C, Campo M, Jiang Y, Prince RA, Wang W, Raad II. Comparison of posaconazole versus weekly amphotericin B lipid complex for the prevention of invasive fungal infections in hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Transplantation. 2012 Aug 15; 94(3):302-8.
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Milan D, Griffith J, Su M, Price ER, McKeon F. The latch region of calcineurin B is involved in both immunosuppressant-immunophilin complex docking and phosphatase activation. Cell. 1994 Nov 04; 79(3):437-47.
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McKeon F. When worlds collide: immunosuppressants meet protein phosphatases. Cell. 1991 Sep 06; 66(5):823-6.