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Mercaptoethanol

"Mercaptoethanol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A water-soluble thiol derived from hydrogen sulfide and ethanol. It is used as a reducing agent for disulfide bonds and to protect sulfhydryl groups from oxidation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mercaptoethanol" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mercaptoethanol" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 4 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1995 and 1996 and 1999 and 2013
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