Cyclodextrins
"Cyclodextrins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A homologous group of cyclic GLUCANS consisting of alpha-1,4 bound glucose units obtained by the action of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on starch or similar substrates. The enzyme is produced by certain species of Bacillus. Cyclodextrins form inclusion complexes with a wide variety of substances.
| Descriptor ID |
D003505
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.345.103 D09.698.365.855.400.375
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| Concept/Terms |
Cyclodextrins- Cyclodextrins
- Cyclomaltooligosaccharides
- Cyclodextrin Derivatives
- Derivatives, Cyclodextrin
- Cycloamylose
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cyclodextrins" by people in Profiles.
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Smuts JP, Na YC, Vallakati R, Pribylka A, May JA, Armstrong DW. Enantioseparation of flinderoles and borreverines by HPLC on Chirobiotic V and V2 stationary phases and by CE using cyclodextrin selectors. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2013 Nov; 405(28):9169-77.
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Middleton A, Nury D, Willington SJ, Latif L, Hill SJ, Middleton B. Modulation by cellular cholesterol of gene transcription via the cyclic AMP response element. Biochem Pharmacol. 2001 Jul 15; 62(2):171-81.