ryanodine

English

Etymology

From Ryania +‎ d +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

Noun

ryanodine (countable and uncountable, plural ryanodines)

  1. (biochemistry, physiology) 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.

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.