dunnione

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Etymology

Noun

dunnione (countable and uncountable, plural dunniones)

  1. (organic chemistry) The orthoquinone 2,3,3-trimethyl-2H-benzo[g][1]benzofuran-4,5-dione that is a naturally-occurring insecticide
    • 2015 September 1, Dongsun Park et al., “A Dunnione Compound MB12662 Improves Cisplatin-Induced Tissue Injury and Emesis”, in Biomolecules & Therapeutics‎, volume 23, DOI:10.4062/biomolther.2015.034:
      Such results led us to investigate the effects of MB12662, a dunnione compound, on damages of target tissues including intestinal, immune, and hematopoietic systems in mice as well as vomiting reflexes in ferrets following cisplatin administration.

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