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vesamicol

vesamicol noun: the drug 2-(4-phenyl-1-piperidyl)cyclohexan-1-ol that inhibits acetylcholine.

Noun

vesamicol (uncountable)

  1. The drug 2-(4-phenyl-1-piperidyl)cyclohexan-1-ol that inhibits acetylcholine
    • Because synapse loss and dysfunction occur before fibrillary tau tangles emerge in the tauopathy mouse AD model[20 ], VAChT may be used as a possible in vivo target for diagnoses of AD. It has been shown that vesamicol (2-(4-phenylpiperidino) cyclohexanol) binds to the ACh transporter on...2016 January 12, “In Vivo Differences between Two Optical Isomers of Radioiodinated o -iodo- trans -decalinvesamicol for Use as a Radioligand for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter”, in PLOS...

Origin of vesamicol

Putatively comes from ves(icle) + ami(ne) + c(h)ol(ine).

Questions about vesamicol

What does vesamicol mean?
Vesamicol means the drug 2-(4-phenyl-1-piperidyl)cyclohexan-1-ol that inhibits acetylcholine.
What part of speech is vesamicol?
Vesamicol is a noun.

Words near vesamicol in the dictionary

  1. ves
  2. VESA
  3. Vesak
  4. Vesalian
  5. vesalianum
  6. vesamicol
  7. vesania
  8. vesanic
  9. vesatolimod
  10. vesbine
  11. vesbite

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