mevastatin

Also known as compactin, ML-236B, antibiotic ML 236B, CS 500, ML 236 B, Mévastatine, mevastatinum, Mevastatina

Mevastatin (compactin, ML-236B) is a hypolipidemic agent that belongs to the statins class.

Research

629 papers

Mevastatin promotes healing by targeting caveolin-1 to restore EGFR signaling.JCI insight · 2019
Effects of Mycotoxin Fumagillin, Mevastatin, Radicicol, and Wortmannin on Photosynthesis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Mevastatin promotes neuronal survival against Aβ-induced neurotoxicity through AMPK activation.Metabolic brain disease · 2017
Mevastatin-Induced HO-1 Expression in Cardiac Fibroblasts: A Strategy to Combat Cardiovascular Inflammation and Fibrosis.Environmental toxicology · 2025
Mevastatin in colon cancer by spectroscopic and microscopic methods - Raman imaging and AFM studies.Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy · 2022

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Biosynthesis
Pharmacology
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