During a 10-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method.
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Emetine
//ˈɛm.ɪ.tiːn//
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Catalan
1 entries- emetina noun (alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root)
French
1 entries- émétine noun (alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root)
Russian
1 entries- эмети́н noun (alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root)
Spanish
1 entries- emetina noun (alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root)
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Magendie performed experiments on emetics and the nature of vomiting, and showed that the emetic properties of ipecacuanha were due to a substance he named emetine.
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After a 3-hour incubation with ALLN [acetylleucyl-leucyl-norleucinal], cells were incubated with emetine in the presence (closed symbols) or absence (open symbols) of ALLN (10 µg/ml).
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