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

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Taxoids  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Taxoid

Note

  • ROTAXANES is also available

Scope note

  • A group of diterpenoid CYCLODECANES named for the taxanes that were discovered in the TAXUS tree. The action on MICROTUBULES has made some of them useful as ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS.

History note

  • 2004

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D043823

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