"Sulfur" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An element that is a member of the chalcogen family. It has an atomic symbol S, atomic number 16, and atomic weight [32.059; 32.076]. It is found in the amino acids cysteine and methionine.
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D013455
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.185.900
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sulfur" by people in Profiles.
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Kreider-Mueller A, Quinlivan PJ, Owen JS, Parkin G. Synthesis and structures of cadmium carboxylate and thiocarboxylate compounds with a sulfur-rich coordination environment: carboxylate exchange kinetics involving tris(2-mercapto-1-t-butylimidazolyl)hydroborato cadmium complexes, [Tm(Bu(t))]Cd(O2CR). Inorg Chem. 2015 Apr 20; 54(8):3835-50.
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Zimmerman MT, Bayse CA, Ramoutar RR, Brumaghim JL. Sulfur and selenium antioxidants: challenging radical scavenging mechanisms and developing structure-activity relationships based on metal binding. J Inorg Biochem. 2015 Apr; 145:30-40.
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Kimani MM, Bayse CA, Stadelman BS, Brumaghim JL. Oxidation of biologically relevant chalcogenones and their Cu(I) complexes: insight into selenium and sulfur antioxidant activity. Inorg Chem. 2013 Oct 21; 52(20):11685-7.
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Kimani MM, Wang HC, Brumaghim JL. Investigating the copper coordination, electrochemistry, and Cu(II) reduction kinetics of biologically relevant selone and thione compounds. Dalton Trans. 2012 May 07; 41(17):5248-59.
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Wang HC, Riahi M, Pothen J, Bayse CA, Riggs-Gelasco P, Brumaghim JL. Interactions of Cu(I) with selenium-containing amino acids determined by NMR, XAS, and DFT studies. Inorg Chem. 2011 Nov 07; 50(21):10893-900.
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Kimani MM, Brumaghim JL, VanDerveer D. Probing the antioxidant action of selenium and sulfur using Cu(I)-chalcogenone tris(pyrazolyl)methane and -borate complexes. Inorg Chem. 2010 Oct 18; 49(20):9200-11.
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Ramoutar RR, Brumaghim JL. Antioxidant and anticancer properties and mechanisms of inorganic selenium, oxo-sulfur, and oxo-selenium compounds. Cell Biochem Biophys. 2010 Sep; 58(1):1-23.
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Arman HD, Gieseking RL, Hanks TW, Pennington WT. Complementary halogen and hydrogen bonding: sulfur...iodine interactions and thioamide ribbons. Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Mar 21; 46(11):1854-6.
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Kimes NE, Van Nostrand JD, Weil E, Zhou J, Morris PJ. Microbial functional structure of Montastraea faveolata, an important Caribbean reef-building coral, differs between healthy and yellow-band diseased colonies. Environ Microbiol. 2010 Feb; 12(2):541-56.
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Battin EE, Brumaghim JL. Antioxidant activity of sulfur and selenium: a review of reactive oxygen species scavenging, glutathione peroxidase, and metal-binding antioxidant mechanisms. Cell Biochem Biophys. 2009; 55(1):1-23.