"Octoxynol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nonionic surfactant mixtures varying in the number of repeating ethoxy (oxy-1,2-ethanediyl) groups. They are used as detergents, emulsifiers, wetting agents, defoaming agents, etc. Octoxynol-9, the compound with 9 repeating ethoxy groups, is a spermatocide.
| Descriptor ID |
D017830
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.455.250.700.660 D05.750.741.610 D25.720.741.610 J01.637.051.720.741.610
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| Concept/Terms |
Octoxynol- Octoxynol
- Octylphenoxy Polyethoxyethanol
- Polyethoxyethanol, Octylphenoxy
- Octoxinol
- Octoxinols
- Octoxynols
- Octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanols
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Octoxynol" by people in Profiles.
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Asymmetric requirement for cholesterol in receptor-bearing but not envelope-bearing membranes for fusion mediated by ecotropic murine leukemia virus. J Virol. 2002 Jul; 76(13):6701-9.
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Association of tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 with F-actin at low cell densities. J Biol Chem. 2001 Aug 03; 276(31):29479-84.
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Rho-kinase--mediated contraction of isolated stress fibers. J Cell Biol. 2001 Apr 30; 153(3):569-84.
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An improved method for exchanging troponin subunits in detergent skinned rat cardiac fiber bundles. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1999 Sep 16; 263(1):219-23.