2-Acetylaminofluorene
"2-Acetylaminofluorene" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A hepatic carcinogen whose mechanism of activation involves N-hydroxylation to the aryl hydroxamic acid followed by enzymatic sulfonation to sulfoxyfluorenylacetamide. It is used to study the carcinogenicity and mutagenicity of aromatic amines.
| Descriptor ID |
D015073
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.065.064.150 D02.241.081.018.110.080 D02.455.426.559.847.389.050 D04.615.389.050
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| Concept/Terms |
2-Acetylaminofluorene- 2-Acetylaminofluorene
- 2 Acetylaminofluorene
- 2-Acetamidofluorene
- 2 Acetamidofluorene
- 2-Fluorenylacetamide
- 2 Fluorenylacetamide
- N-2-Fluorenylacetamide
- N 2 Fluorenylacetamide
- N-Acetyl-2-Aminofluorene
- N Acetyl 2 Aminofluorene
- AAF, Aminofluorene
- Aminofluorene AAF
- 2-AAF
- Fluoren-2-ylacetamide
- Fluoren 2 ylacetamide
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Feo F, Garcea R, Daino L, Pascale R, Pirisi L, Frassetto S, Ruggiu ME. Early stimulation of polyamine biosynthesis during promotion by phenobarbital of diethylnitrosamine-induced rat liver carcinogenesis. The effects of variations of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine cellular pool. Carcinogenesis. 1985 Dec; 6(12):1713-20.