"Buthionine Sulfoximine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A synthetic amino acid that depletes glutathione by irreversibly inhibiting gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase. Inhibition of this enzyme is a critical step in glutathione biosynthesis. It has been shown to inhibit the proliferative response in human T-lymphocytes and inhibit macrophage activation. (J Biol Chem 1995;270(33):1945-7)
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D019328
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D02.886.030.676.620.125 D12.125.166.676.620.125
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