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What does actinomycin mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.
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Thirty-day follow-up in Guidant's ACTION clinical trial utilizing Actinomycin D has revealed no safety concerns.
The chemotherapy regimen was ifosfamide, vincristine and actinomycin, as per the IRS protocol.
In 1940 Waksman, along with his graduate student H. Boyd Woodruff, isolated actinomycin from soil bacteria.
Effect of actinomycin on thymidylic kinase activities of 24-hour regenerating liver supernatant fluid.
Thus even with prior exposure of the cells to the toxic chemotherapeutic drug actinomycin D, the cells did not die.
Actinomycin D inhibited activity only on double-stranded DNA templates.

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