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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Amino Acids > Amino Acids, Diamino > Ornithine > Eflornithine
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Amino Acids > Amino Acids, Basic > Ornithine > Eflornithine

Preferred term

Eflornithine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • alpha Difluoromethyl Ornithine
  • alpha Difluoromethylornithine
  • alpha-Difluoromethyl Ornithine
  • alpha-Difluoromethylornithine
  • Difluoromethylornithine
  • DL alpha Difluoromethylornithine
  • DL-alpha-Difluoromethylornithine
  • Ornithine, alpha-Difluoromethyl

Scope note

  • An inhibitor of ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE, the rate limiting enzyme of the polyamine biosynthetic pathway.

History note

  • 1991; use ALPHA-DIFLUOROMETHYLORNITHINE 1987-1990

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000518

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