combretastatin

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noun

A dihydrostilbenoid found in Combretum caffrum.

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Meanings

nouncombretastatin (countable and uncountable, plural combretastatins)

plural combretastatins

  1. countableuncountableA dihydrostilbenoid found in Combretum caffrum.

    Because combretastatin A-4 causes hemorrhagic necrosis by breaking down the epithelial wall of immature vasculature in tumors 24, we tested its ability to enhance colonization of autochthonous tumors by IV administered S.

    2015 July 15, Jeremy J. Drees et al., “Vasculature Disruption Enhances Bacterial Targeting of Autochthonous Tumors”, in Journal of Cancer, volume 6, →DOI
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