Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Aprotinin  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A single-chain polypeptide derived from bovine tissues consisting of 58 amino-acid residues. It is an inhibitor of proteolytic enzymes including CHYMOTRYPSIN; KALLIKREIN; PLASMIN; and TRYPSIN. It is used in the treatment of HEMORRHAGE associated with raised plasma concentrations of plasmin. It is also used to reduce blood loss and transfusion requirements in patients at high risk of major blood loss during and following open heart surgery with EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION. (Reynolds JEF(Ed): Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia (electronic version). Micromedex, Inc, Englewood, CO, 1995)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 9004-04-0 (other number)
  • 9087-70-1
  • Basic Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
  • Bovine Kunitz Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
  • Bovine Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
  • BPTI, Basic Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
  • Kallikrein-Trypsin Inactivator
  • Kunitz Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor
  • Trypsin Inhibitor, Basic, Pancreatic
  • Trypsin Inhibitor, Kunitz, Pancreatic

In other languages

  • French

  • 9004-04-0 (other number)
  • 9087-70-1
  • Inhibiteur trypsique pancréatique Kunitz

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-V5M2PQKM-9

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 7/1/16