"Thiouracil" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Occurs in seeds of Brassica and Crucifera species. Thiouracil has been used as antithyroid, coronary vasodilator, and in congestive heart failure although its use has been largely supplanted by other drugs. It is known to cause blood dyscrasias and suspected of terato- and carcinogenesis.
| Descriptor ID |
D013889
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.875.842
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thiouracil" by people in Profiles.
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Aliev G, Shi J, Perry G, Friedland RP, Lamanna JC. Decreased constitutive nitric oxide synthase, but increased inducible nitric oxide synthase and endothelin-1 immunoreactivity in aortic endothelial cells of donryu rats on a cholesterol-enriched diet. Anat Rec. 2000 09 01; 260(1):16-25.
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Lapinski L, Nowak MJ, Kolos R, Kwiatkowski JS, Leszczynski J. Spectroscopic identification of 2,4-pyrimidinedithiol; an experimental matrix isolation and ab initio Hartree-Fock and density functional theory study. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 1998 May; 54A(5):685-93.
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Adams WC, Senseman DM. Aromatization of androstenedione by induced polycystic ovaries in the rat. J Steroid Biochem. 1976 Apr; 7(4):309-10.