ryanodine
/rʌɪˈanədiːn/Biochemistry and Physiology
noun
A poisonous alkaloid which occurs in the stems of the tropical American shrub Ryania speciosa (family Flacourtiaceae) and has been used as an insecticide and in experimental studies of calcium release within cells.
- Ryanodine is a diterpenoid with an esterified proline group. Formula: C25H35NO9..
Origin
1940s. From scientific Latin Ryania, name of a genus of tropical American plants (M. H. Vahl Eclogae Americanae I. 51; from the name of John Ryan, 18th-cent. British physician and botanist + scientific Latin -ia) + -ine, with apparently arbitrary insertion of -od-.
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