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... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Terpenes > Diterpenes > Taxoids > Paclitaxel
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Macrocyclic Compounds > Cycloparaffins > Cyclodecanes > Taxoids > Paclitaxel
... > Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Hydrocarbons, Cyclic > Hydrocarbons, Alicyclic > Cycloparaffins > Cyclodecanes > Taxoids > Paclitaxel

Preferred term

Paclitaxel  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • 7 epi Taxol
  • 7-epi-Taxol
  • Anzatax
  • NSC 125973
  • NSC-125973
  • NSC125973
  • Onxol
  • Paclitaxel, (4 alpha)-Isomer
  • Paxene
  • Praxel
  • Taxol

Scope note

  • A cyclodecane isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, TAXUS BREVIFOLIA. It stabilizes MICROTUBULES in their polymerized form leading to cell death.

History note

  • 95; was TAXOL 1993-94; was TAXOL A (NM) 1977-92

In other languages

  • paklitakseli

    Finnish

  • Abraxane
  • Paclihexal
  • Paclimedac
  • Paclitaxel Actavis
  • Paclitaxel BMM Pharma
  • Paclitaxel Ebewe
  • Paclitaxel Fresenius Kabi
  • Paclitaxel Hexal
  • Paclitaxel Hospira
  • Paclitaxel Mylan
  • Paclitaxel Schlichtiger
  • Paclitaxel Stada
  • Paclitaxel Stragen
  • Paclitaxelum
  • Paclitaxin
  • Paxene
  • Taxol
  • Paklitaxel

    Swedish

  • Paxene
  • Taxol

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017239

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