 Fluorocarbons
"Fluorocarbons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Liquid perfluorinated carbon compounds which may or may not contain a hetero atom such as nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur, but do not contain another halogen or hydrogen atom. This concept includes fluorocarbon emulsions and fluorocarbon blood substitutes.
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D005466
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.526.510.435
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| Concept/Terms |
Fluorinated Telomer Alcohols- Fluorinated Telomer Alcohols
- Alcohols, Fluorinated Telomer
- Telomer Alcohols, Fluorinated
- Polyfluorinated Telomer Alcohols
- Alcohols, Polyfluorinated Telomer
- Telomer Alcohols, Polyfluorinated
- Fluoro-Telomer Alcohols
- Alcohols, Fluoro-Telomer
- Fluoro Telomer Alcohols
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2023 | 12 | 0 | 12 | | 2024 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2025 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2026 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fluorocarbons" by people in Profiles.
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Yang D, Wang X, Liu J, Gong Y, Nair P, Sun J, Qian X, Cui J, Zeng H, Dong A, Harding RJ, Burgess-Brown N, Beyett TS, Song D, Krause HM, Diamond ML, Bolhuis DL, Brown NG, Arrowsmith CH, Edwards AM, Halabelian L, Peng H. High-throughput protein target mapping enables accelerated bioactivity discovery for ToxCast and PFAS compounds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Jun 23; 123(25):e2515940123.
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Vajda AM, Jenkins JA, Bertolatus DW, LeBlanc DR, Martyniuk CJ, Hopkins ZR, Tokranov AK, Dethloff AR, Tucker JC, Lohmann R, Barber LB. PFAS Mixture Composition and Internal Exposure Profiles Shape Biological Responses under Field-Realistic Exposure. Environ Sci Technol. 2026 Jun 09; 60(22):15656-15668.
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Starling AP, Burjak M, Nzegwu AW, Xun X, Adgate JL, Barrett ES, Bennett DH, Chatzi L, Colicino E, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Eick SM, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Fleisch AF, Geiger SD, Hedderson MM, Kahn LG, Karagas MR, Kelly RS, Liang D, Lin PI, O'Connor TG, Padula AM, Peterson AK, Romano ME, Sathyanarayana S, Zhu Y, Valvi D. Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances During Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort. Diabetes Care. 2026 05 01; 49(5):852-860.
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Tomsovic Y, Gu S, Doudrick K, Straub AP. Mechanistic Insights into PFAS Rejection in Nanofiltration and Reverse Osmosis from Data-Driven Analysis. Environ Sci Technol. 2026 May 12; 60(18):13711-13723.
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Winkles JF, Santoro N, El Khoudary SR, deSouza P, Matuk J, Crawford S, Colvin A, Sammel M, Park SK. Associations between pollutants, the regularity of daily sex hormone patterns, and hormone profiles over a complete menstrual cycle. Reprod Toxicol. 2026 Aug; 143:109247.
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Hvizdak M, Kandel SE, Lampe JN. New Mechanistic Evidence for Perfluorodecanoic Acid (PFDA) Teratogenicity via CYP26A1-Mediated Retinoic Acid Metabolism and Signaling. Chem Res Toxicol. 2026 Apr 20; 39(4):566-583.
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Bauer RA, Yang Z, Petriello M, Zhang S, Stapleton HM, Adgate JL, Carignan CC. Associations of serum PFAS with COVID-19 antibody levels among fully vaccinated adults. Environ Res. 2026 Jun 01; 298:124154.
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Kaplan JR, Dabelea D, Calafat AM, Adgate JL, Starling AP. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances serum concentrations during pregnancy and gestational weight gain in the Healthy Start Study. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2026 Mar; 272:114735.
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Cintora P, Quirós-Alcalá L, Nzegwu AW, Upadhyaya S, Woodbury M, Geiger SD, Morello-Frosch R, Dunlop AL, Bastain TM, Starling AP, Dabelea D, Camargo CA, Lin PD, Kelly RS, Ferrara A, Croen LA, O'Connor TG, Park JS, Reynolds M, Kannan K, Schantz SL. Association between prenatal exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and early language development in the ECHO cohort. Neurotoxicology. 2025 Dec; 111:103309.
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Bulka CM, Quiros-Alcala L, Xun X, O'Shea TM, Braun JM, Ames JL, Hipwell AE, Chatzi VL, Padula AM, Dabelea D, Starling A, Dunlop AL, Liang D, Schantz S, Shin HM, Oh J, Schmidt RJ, Lu K, O'Connor TG, Fry RC. Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Association with child behavior in the environmental influences on child health outcomes (ECHO) Cohort. Environ Int. 2025 Sep; 203:109760.
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