The Collaborative International Dictionary
cyclosporin \cyclosporin\, cyclosporine \cyclosporine\n. a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery. [PJC] ||
Wiktionary
n. (context pharmacology English) A cyclic oligopeptide, obtained from soil fungi, used as an immunosuppressive drug after an organ transplant.
Usage examples of "cyclosporine".
The next real breakthrough came in 1983 when cyclosporine, a drug derived from a Norwegian fungus, hit the market.
Where Imuran was a frontal assault, a wholesale destruction of the entire immune system, cyclosporine was a back-door assassin, allowing a targeted suppression of the T cells.
Cordyceps was also the origin of cyclosporine, a fairly effective first generation immunosuppressant.
The doctors gave me steroids and cyclosporine to control it, and that worked, but it also managed to break down my kidneys, which is the emergency flavor of the month.