"Bromouracil" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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5-Bromo-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione. Brominated derivative of uracil that acts as an antimetabolite, substituting for thymine in DNA. It is used mainly as an experimental mutagen, but its deoxyriboside (BROMODEOXYURIDINE) is used to treat neoplasms.
| Descriptor ID |
D001976
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.875.237
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| Concept/Terms |
Bromouracil- Bromouracil
- Bromuracil
- 5-Bromouracil
- 5 Bromouracil
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bromouracil" by people in Profiles.
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Senseman SA, Mueller TC, Riley MB, Wauchope RD, Clegg C, Young RW, Southwick LM, Moye HA, Dumas JA, Mersie W, Mattice JD, Leidy RB. Interlaboratory comparison of extraction efficiency of pesticides from surface and laboratory water using solid-phase extraction disks. J Agric Food Chem. 2003 Jun 18; 51(13):3748-52.