"Calcimycin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An ionophorous, polyether antibiotic from Streptomyces chartreusensis. It binds and transports CALCIUM and other divalent cations across membranes and uncouples oxidative phosphorylation while inhibiting ATPase of rat liver mitochondria. The substance is used mostly as a biochemical tool to study the role of divalent cations in various biological systems.
| Descriptor ID |
D000001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.221.173
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| Concept/Terms |
A-23187- A-23187
- A 23187
- A23187
- Antibiotic A23187
- A23187, Antibiotic
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Calcimycin" by people in Profiles.
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Glomerular mesangial cell altered contractility in high glucose is Ca2+ independent. Diabetes. 1995 Jul; 44(7):759-66.