See Also: tenuazonic acid(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)
Rambourg's chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain(medicine)
Medicine(medicine)
medicine man(dictionary)
medicine(2)(dictionary)
medicine man(encyclopedia)
medicine(encyclopedia)

tenuazonic acid (medicine)


tenuazonic acid
<chemical> 3-acetyl-5-sec-butyl-4-hydroxy-3-pyrrolin-2-one. A metabolite found in a strain of the fungus alternaria tenuis auct. Which functions as an antibiotic with antiviral and antineoplastic properties, and may also act as a mycotoxin.

Pharmacological action: antibiotics, antineoplastic, antiviral agents.

Chemical name: 2H-Pyrrol-2-one, 3-acetyl-1,5-dihydro-4-hydroxy-5-(1-methylpropyl)-, (S-(R*,R*))-