 Swainsonine
"Swainsonine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An indolizidine alkaloid from the plant Swainsona canescens that is a potent alpha-mannosidase inhibitor. Swainsonine also exhibits antimetastatic, antiproliferative, and immunomodulatory activity.
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D017026
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.132.830
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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McFarlane I, Georgopoulou N, Coughlan CM, Gillian AM, Breen KC. The role of the protein glycosylation state in the control of cellular transport of the amyloid beta precursor protein. Neuroscience. 1999 Apr; 90(1):15-25.
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