Also known as: srl..
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A naturally occurring substance discovered in a soil sample from Easter Island. Sirolimus was initially thought to hold promise asan antifungal antibiotic but this idea was dropped when sirolimus was unexpectedly found to have immunosuppressive activity. The US Food and Drug Administration in 1999 approved the use of sirolimus as an immunosuppressant agent. But earlier in the nineties, evidence had been uncovered that sirolimus wasalso a potent inhibitor of the growth of smooth muscle cells in blood vessels.The idea was then "hatched" that sirolimus might be used to inhibitthe restenosis (reclosure) of coronary arteries.
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