Cysteamine
"Cysteamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A mercaptoethylamine compound that is endogenously derived from the COENZYME A degradative pathway. The fact that cysteamine is readily transported into LYSOSOMES where it reacts with CYSTINE to form cysteine-cysteamine disulfide and CYSTEINE has led to its use in CYSTINE DEPLETING AGENTS for the treatment of CYSTINOSIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D003543
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.471.562.369 D02.886.489.472.369
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| Concept/Terms |
Cysteamine- Cysteamine
- beta-Mercaptoethylamine
- beta Mercaptoethylamine
- Mercaptoethylamine
- Mercamine
- Mercaptamine
- 2-Aminoethanethiol
- 2 Aminoethanethiol
- Cysteinamine
Cysteamine Bitartrate- Cysteamine Bitartrate
- Bitartrate, Cysteamine
- Cysteamine Tartrate (1:1)
- Cysteamine Tartrate
- Tartrate, Cysteamine
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