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Taxoids

"Taxoids" 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 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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Taxoids" by people in this website by year, and whether "Taxoids" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 87 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2015
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