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sapintoxin

sapintoxin noun: any of a class of irritant phorbol esters obtained from milktrees of the genus Sapium.

Noun

sapintoxin (plural sapintoxins)

  1. Any of a class of irritant phorbol esters obtained from milktrees of the genus Sapium.
    • The 17 gene signature derived from this model was confirmed with other PKC-activating tumor promoters including phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate, sapintoxin D, mezerein, (-)-Indolactam V and resiniferonol 9,13,14-ortho-phenylacetate (ROPA) with quantitative real-time PCR (QPCR).2015 October 3, “Synergistic Gene Expression Signature Observed in TK6 Cells upon Co-Exposure to UVC-Irradiation and Protein Kinase C-Activating Tumor Promoters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of sapintoxin

pluralsapintoxins

Questions about sapintoxin

What does sapintoxin mean?
Sapintoxin means any of a class of irritant phorbol esters obtained from milktrees of the genus Sapium.
What part of speech is sapintoxin?
Sapintoxin is a noun.
What is the plural of sapintoxin?
The plural of sapintoxin is sapintoxins.

Words near sapintoxin in the dictionary

  1. sapindas
  2. sapindaship
  3. sapindaships
  4. Sapingit
  5. Sapinit
  6. sapintoxin
  7. sapintoxins
  8. sapio
  9. sapiophile
  10. sapiophiles
  11. sapios

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