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- noun organic chemistry A
polycyclic hydrocarbon , C10H16, having acagelike structure similar to a portion of thediamond lattice ; any of its derivatives
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Examples
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So, there's a class of drugs called the adamantane drugs, what is called rimantadine and amantadine.
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The stockpile has 40 million treatment courses of Tamiflu, 10 million courses of Relenza and nearly three million courses of an adamantane.
In the War Against Flu's Mutants, a Big Ally Is Weakened 2009
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My main interests were natural compounds, from adamantane and aialoids to rifamycins and boromycin.
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They found that about one-third of those samples carried mutations enabling the virus strains to resist the effects of adamantane drugs.
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The currently circulating swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus is sensitive to the neuraminidase inhibitor antiviral medications zanamivir and oseltamivir, but is resistant to the adamantane antiviral medications, amantadine and rimantadine.
Blogger News Network 2009
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Swine flu, however, has a single mutation (S31N) that makes it resistant to adamantane drugs.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Over time, widespread use of this relatively older class of drugs has put significant evolutionary pressure on influenza, giving viruses with this mutation a selective advantage, leading to increasing rates of adamantane resistance in recent years.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Consequently, 30 percent of the avian flu samples recently analyzed by the study authors proved resistant to the adamantane drugs.
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The oseltamivir flu / A picture was reversed for the older adamantane antivirals (which work by a different mechanism).
WordPress.com News 2009
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No flu / A virus was simultaneously resistant to oseltamivir and an adamantane antiviral.
WordPress.com News 2009
bilby commented on the word adamantane
Pleasing number of a's in this word.
May 24, 2018
madmouth commented on the word adamantane
Cf. kikiriki
May 26, 2018