 Methoxsalen
"Methoxsalen" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A naturally occurring furocoumarin compound found in several species of plants, including Psoralea corylifolia. It is a photoactive substance that forms DNA ADDUCTS in the presence of ultraviolet A irradiation.
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D008730
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.663.283.446.794.500 D03.633.100.150.446.794.500 D03.633.300.770.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Methoxsalen- Methoxsalen
- Xanthotoxin
- 8-Methoxypsoralen
- 8 Methoxypsoralen
- Ammoidin
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methoxsalen" by people in Profiles.
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Szczepiorkowski ZM, Burnett CA, Dumont LJ, Abhyankar SH. Apheresis buffy coat collection without photoactivation has no effect on apoptosis, cell proliferation, and total viability of mononuclear cells collected using photopheresis systems. Transfusion. 2018 04; 58(4):943-950.
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Capitini CM, Davis JP, Larabee SM, Herby S, Nasholm NM, Fry TJ. Extracorporeal photopheresis attenuates murine graft-versus-host disease via bone marrow-derived interleukin-10 and preserves responses to dendritic cell vaccination. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Jun; 17(6):790-9.
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Bunn PA. Cutaneous T cell lymphomas. BMJ. 1994 Feb 26; 308(6928):551-2.
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Cech T, Pathak MA, Biswas RK. An electron microscopic study of the photochemical cross-linking of DNA in guinea pig epidermis by psoralen derivatives. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1979 Apr 26; 562(2):342-60.
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