"Alkanes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The generic name for the group of aliphatic hydrocarbons Cn-H2n+2. They are denoted by the suffix -ane. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
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D000473
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alkanes" by people in Profiles.
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Shabbir Hussain M, Wheeldon I, Blenner MA. A Strong Hybrid Fatty Acid Inducible Transcriptional Sensor Built From Yarrowia lipolytica Upstream Activating and Regulatory Sequences. Biotechnol J. 2017 Oct; 12(10).
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Friedman Ohana R, Levin S, Wood MG, Zimmerman K, Dart ML, Schwinn MK, Kirkland TA, Hurst R, Uyeda HT, Encell LP, Wood KV. Improved Deconvolution of Protein Targets for Bioactive Compounds Using a Palladium Cleavable Chloroalkane Capture Tag. ACS Chem Biol. 2016 09 16; 11(9):2608-17.
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Ohana RF, Kirkland TA, Woodroofe CC, Levin S, Uyeda HT, Otto P, Hurst R, Robers MB, Zimmerman K, Encell LP, Wood KV. Deciphering the Cellular Targets of Bioactive Compounds Using a Chloroalkane Capture Tag. ACS Chem Biol. 2015 Oct 16; 10(10):2316-24.
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Pierce F, Tsige M, Perahia D, Grest GS. Liquid-liquid interfaces of semifluorinated alkane diblock copolymers with water, alkanes, and perfluorinated alkanes. J Phys Chem B. 2008 Dec 18; 112(50):16012-20.
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Wijesinghe DS, Subramanian P, Lamour NF, Gentile LB, Granado MH, Bielawska A, Szulc Z, Gomez-Munoz A, Chalfant CE. Chain length specificity for activation of cPLA2alpha by C1P: use of the dodecane delivery system to determine lipid-specific effects. J Lipid Res. 2009 Oct; 50(10):1986-95.
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Fears KP, Creager SE, Latour RA. Determination of the surface pK of carboxylic- and amine-terminated alkanethiols using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. Langmuir. 2008 Feb 05; 24(3):837-43.
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Ito S, Hashimoto M, Wadgaonkar B, Svizero N, Carvalho RM, Yiu C, Rueggeberg FA, Foulger S, Saito T, Nishitani Y, Yoshiyama M, Tay FR, Pashley DH. Effects of resin hydrophilicity on water sorption and changes in modulus of elasticity. Biomaterials. 2005 Nov; 26(33):6449-59.
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Liu B, Bard AJ, Mirkin MV, Creager SE. Electron transfer at self-assembled monolayers measured by scanning electrochemical microscopy. J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Feb 11; 126(5):1485-92.
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Latour RA, Hench LL. A theoretical analysis of the thermodynamic contributions for the adsorption of individual protein residues on functionalized surfaces. Biomaterials. 2002 Dec; 23(23):4633-48.
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Rowland SA, Shalaby SW, Latour RA, von Recum AF. Effectiveness of cleaning surgical implants: quantitative analysis of contaminant removal. J Appl Biomater. 1995; 6(1):1-7.