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ligustilides

ligustilides is the plural of ligustilide.

Meaning of ligustilide

Noun

ligustilide (countable and uncountable, plural ligustilides)

  1. The lactone (3Z)-3-butylidene-4,5-dihydro-2-benzofuran-1-one, isolated from plants of the genus Ligusticum, used as a cardiovascular therapy
    • This might explain why chronic administration of ligustilide prevents (via klotho upregulation) the development of AD-like neuropathologies and memory impairment [14 ].2015 November 25, “Secreted and Transmembrane αKlotho Isoforms Have Different Spatio-Temporal Profiles in the Brain during Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Progression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about ligustilides

What is ligustilides the plural of?
Ligustilides is the plural of ligustilide.

Words near ligustilides in the dictionary

  1. Ligurians
  2. ligurite
  3. ligurites
  4. Liguro-
  5. ligustilide
  6. ligustilides
  7. ligustral
  8. ligustrazine
  9. ligustrin
  10. ligustroside
  11. ligustrum

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