"Mercaptoethanol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A water-soluble thiol derived from hydrogen sulfide and ethanol. It is used as a reducing agent for disulfide bonds and to protect sulfhydryl groups from oxidation.
| Descriptor ID |
D008623
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.375.534 D02.886.489.409
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mercaptoethanol" by people in Profiles.
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The role of alanine 163 in solute permeability of Leishmania major aquaglyceroporin LmAQP1. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2011 Jan; 175(1):83-90.
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Structural stability of human alpha-thrombin studied by disulfide reduction and scrambling. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2003 Sep 23; 1651(1-2):85-92.
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Intrathecal S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine and L-cysteine attenuate nerve injury-induced allodynia through noradrenergic activation in rats. Neuroscience. 2000; 101(3):759-65.
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Human antibodies elicited by a pneumococcal vaccine express idiotypic determinants indicative of V(H)3 gene segment usage. J Infect Dis. 1998 Sep; 178(3):707-16.
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Ifosfamide with mesna uroprotection in the management of lung cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 1990 Apr; 13(2):148-55.
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The rigor configuration of smooth muscle heavy meromyosin trapped by a zero-length cross-linker. Biochemistry. 1990 Mar 27; 29(12):3013-23.
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Clinical studies of ifosfamide/mesna at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 1983-1988. Semin Oncol. 1989 Feb; 16(1 Suppl 3):51-5.
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Ifosfamide and mesna: marginally active in patients with advanced carcinoma of the pancreas. J Clin Oncol. 1988 Nov; 6(11):1703-7.
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Ifosfamide-induced subclinical tubular nephrotoxicity despite mesna. Cancer Treat Rep. 1987 Feb; 71(2):127-30.
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Identification of dipeptidyl peptidase IV as a protein shared by the plasma membrane of hepatocytes and liver biomatrix. Exp Cell Res. 1985 Jun; 158(2):509-18.