"Tellurium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An element that is a member of the chalcogen family. It has the atomic symbol Te, atomic number 52, and atomic weight 127.60. It has been used as a coloring agent and in the manufacture of electrical equipment. Exposure may cause nausea, vomiting, and CNS depression.
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D013691
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.185.950 D01.268.513.968
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tellurium" by people in Profiles.
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Kim JS, Cho KJ, Tran TH, Nurunnabi M, Moon TH, Hong SM, Lee YK. In vivo NIR imaging with CdTe/CdSe quantum dots entrapped in PLGA nanospheres. J Colloid Interface Sci. 2011 Jan 15; 353(2):363-71.
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Kang Y, Norris MH, Barrett AR, Wilcox BA, Hoang TT. Engineering of tellurite-resistant genetic tools for single-copy chromosomal analysis of Burkholderia spp. and characterization of the Burkholderia thailandensis betBA operon. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2009 Jun; 75(12):4015-27.
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Toptchieva A, Sisson G, Bryden LJ, Taylor DE, Hoffman PS. An inducible tellurite-resistance operon in Proteus mirabilis. Microbiology (Reading). 2003 May; 149(Pt 5):1285-1295.
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Taylor DE, Rooker M, Keelan M, Ng LK, Martin I, Perna NT, Burland NT, Blattner FR. Genomic variability of O islands encoding tellurite resistance in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates. J Bacteriol. 2002 Sep; 184(17):4690-8.
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Turner RJ, Weiner JH, Taylor DE. Tellurite-mediated thiol oxidation in Escherichia coli. Microbiology (Reading). 1999 Sep; 145 ( Pt 9):2549-2557.