Tacrolimus
Origin
From tsukuba macrolide immunosuppressant (after Streptomyces tsukubaensis).
Full definition of tacrolimus
Noun
tacrolimus
(uncountable)- An immunosuppressive drug used mainly after organ transplantation.
- March 5, 2009, Kohsuke Inomata et al., High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells, Itoh, S. & Navia, M. A. Structure comparison of native and mutant human recombinant FKBP12 complexes with the immunosuppressant drug FK506 (tacrolimus) .