 Xenobiotics
"Xenobiotics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Chemical substances that are foreign to the biological system. They include naturally occurring compounds, drugs, environmental agents, carcinogens, insecticides, etc.
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D015262
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.969
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Xenobiotics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Xenobiotics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Xenobiotics" by people in Profiles.
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Goode EL, White KL, Vierkant RA, Phelan CM, Cunningham JM, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Larson MC, Fridley BL, Olson JE, Webb PM, Chen X, Beesley J, Chenevix-Trench G, Sellers TA. Xenobiotic-Metabolizing gene polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk. Mol Carcinog. 2011 May; 50(5):397-402.
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Vyhlidal CA, Gaedigk R, Leeder JS. Nuclear receptor expression in fetal and pediatric liver: correlation with CYP3A expression. Drug Metab Dispos. 2006 Jan; 34(1):131-7.
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Windmill KF, McKinnon RA, Zhu X, Gaedigk A, Grant DM, McManus ME. The role of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes in arylamine toxicity and carcinogenesis: functional and localization studies. Mutat Res. 1997 May 12; 376(1-2):153-60.
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