"Potassium Cyanide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A highly poisonous compound that is an inhibitor of many metabolic processes, but has been shown to be an especially potent inhibitor of heme enzymes and hemeproteins. It is used in many industrial processes.
| Descriptor ID |
D011190
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.625.400.100.750 D01.745.635
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| 1993 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Potassium Cyanide" by people in Profiles.
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Nishimura Y, Lemasters JJ. Glycine blocks opening of a death channel in cultured hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells during chemical hypoxia. Cell Death Differ. 2001 Aug; 8(8):850-8.
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Miller DS, Masereeuw R, Henson J, Karnaky KJ. Excretory transport of xenobiotics by dogfish shark rectal gland tubules. Am J Physiol. 1998 09; 275(3):R697-705.
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Dawson TL, Gores GJ, Nieminen AL, Herman B, Lemasters JJ. Mitochondria as a source of reactive oxygen species during reductive stress in rat hepatocytes. Am J Physiol. 1993 Apr; 264(4 Pt 1):C961-7.
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Kawanishi T, Nieminen AL, Herman B, Lemasters JJ. Suppression of Ca2+ oscillations in cultured rat hepatocytes by chemical hypoxia. J Biol Chem. 1991 Oct 25; 266(30):20062-9.
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Gores GJ, Flarsheim CE, Dawson TL, Nieminen AL, Herman B, Lemasters JJ. Swelling, reductive stress, and cell death during chemical hypoxia in hepatocytes. Am J Physiol. 1989 Aug; 257(2 Pt 1):C347-54.
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Conley TG, Priest DG. Non-classical inhibition of uricase by cyanide. Biochem J. 1980 Jun 01; 187(3):733-8.