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(biochemistry, pharmacology) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid, chemical formula C29H40N2O4, extracted from ipecacuanha root, and formerly used in the treatment of amebic infections and as an emetic in aversion therapy. quotations
During a 10-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method.
1948 September 13, “A Drink for Drunks”, in Time
Magendie performed experiments on emetics and the nature of vomiting, and showed that the emetic properties of ipecacuanha were due to a substance he named emetine.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 323
After a 3-hour incubation with ALLN [acetylleucyl-leucyl-norleucinal], cells were incubated with emetine in the presence (closed symbols) or absence (open symbols) of ALLN (10 µg/ml).
2001 May 25, Neil F. Bence et al., “Impairment of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System by Protein Aggregation”, in Science, volume 292, number 5521, page 1553