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Inorganic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Sulfhydryl Compounds > Mercaptoethylamines > Cysteamine
Organic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Sulfhydryl Compounds > Mercaptoethylamines > Cysteamine
Organic Chemicals > Amines > Ethylamines > Mercaptoethylamines > Cysteamine

Preferred term

Cysteamine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 2 Aminoethanethiol
  • 2-Aminoethanethiol
  • beta Mercaptoethylamine
  • beta-Mercaptoethylamine
  • Cysteinamine
  • Mercamine
  • Mercaptamine
  • Mercaptoethylamine

Note

  • do not confuse with CYSTAMINE

Scope note

  • A mercaptoethylamine compound that is endogenously derived from the COENZYME A degradative pathway. The fact that cysteamine is readily transported into LYSOSOMES where it reacts with CYSTINE to form cysteine-cysteamine disulfide and CYSTEINE has led to its use in CYSTINE DEPLETING AGENTS for the treatment of CYSTINOSIS.

History note

  • CYSTEINAMINE was see under MERCAPTOETHYLAMINES 1963-66

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003543

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