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Pravastatin

"Pravastatin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An antilipemic fungal metabolite isolated from cultures of Nocardia autotrophica. It acts as a competitive inhibitor of HMG CoA reductase (HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pravastatin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pravastatin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2001 and 2003
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