单词 | lovastatin |
释义 | lovastatinn. Pharmacology. A drug of the statin class used to reduce levels of cholesterol.Formula: C24H36O5. ΚΠ 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). < n.1986 |
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