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单词 lovastatin
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lovastatinn.

Brit. /ləʊvəˈstatɪn/, /ləʊˈvastətɪn/, U.S. /ˌloʊvəˈstætin/, /loʊˈvæstətin/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: low adj., vaso- comb. form, somatostatin n.
Etymology: < lo- (perhaps representing low adj.) + va- (in vaso- comb. form) + -statin (in somatostatin n.).
Pharmacology.
A drug of the statin class used to reduce levels of cholesterol.Formula: C24H36O5.
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1986 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 256 2843 Treatment with lovastatin (mevinolin) one year after transplantation produced a marked improvement in the patient's lipoprotein profile.
1992 J. Lehrer Bus of My Own (1993) xvi. 262 With the additional help of lovastatin, a cholesterol-reducing medicine, I now have my bad cholesterol way down.
2006 Nature 7 Sept. 2/2 Without asymmetric synthesis, some hugely successful drugs—such as AZT for HIV/AIDS, or lovastatin, which reduces cholesterol—would be extremely difficult to make.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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