Meanings
nounsapintoxin (plural sapintoxins)
plural sapintoxins
- 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
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