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tolbutamide
tolbutamide
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Noun
tolbutamide (countable and uncountable, plural tolbutamides)
- A drug that blocks potassium channels, used in the treatment of diabetes.
- 2009 March 27, Ken-ichi Takeuchi et al., “Changes in Temperature Preferences and Energy Homeostasis in Dystroglycan Mutants”, in Science, volume 323, number 5922, DOI: , pages 1740-1743:
- The cryophilic phenotype of the atu mutant was alleviated to some extent by administering rotenone, a pharmacological inhibitor of oxidative phosphorylation, but not tolbutamide, a sulphonylurea that stimulates metabolic rate by raising the lymphatic concentration of glucose.
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See also
- tolbutamide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia