DMSO

dimethyl sulfoxide: a liquid substance, C 2 H 6 OS, used in industry as a solvent and paint and varnish remover; proposed as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory in musculoskeletal disorders.

DMSO

abbreviation

dimethylsulphoxide

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Word History and Origins

Origin of DMSO¹

1960–65; d(i)m(ethyl) s(ulf ) o(xide)

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It won't scale up to industrial treatment, and it uses dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, but these findings will guide future discoveries about what might work.

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Researchers led by William Dichtel and Brittany Trang, chemists at Northwestern University, studied numerous recipes involving DMSO.

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Barcoded KCL-22 cells were treated with DMSO, ABL001 or nilotinib.

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Likewise, heating the T2-γ solvate isolated from a DMSO/acetone mixture for 60 min at 340 K transformed it to a T2-α solvate.

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The T2-γ polymorph was also found to crystallize from other solvent combinations, such as DMSO/acetone and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone/acetone.

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D.M.S.DMT

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