"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mercaptoethanol" by people in Profiles.
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Optical Coherence Tomography of Tumor Spheroids Identifies Candidates for Drug Repurposing in Ovarian Cancer. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2023 06; 70(6):1891-1901.
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The Rheology and Printability of Cartilage Matrix-Only Biomaterials. Biomolecules. 2022 06 17; 12(6).
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Reactive sulfur species: kinetics and mechanism of the equilibrium between cysteine sulfenyl thiocyanate and cysteine thiosulfinate ester in acidic aqueous solution. J Org Chem. 2008 Apr 18; 73(8):3017-23.