"Fluorouracil" 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.
A pyrimidine analog that is an antineoplastic antimetabolite. It interferes with DNA synthesis by blocking the THYMIDYLATE SYNTHETASE conversion of deoxyuridylic acid to thymidylic acid.
Descriptor ID |
D005472
|
MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.875.404
|
Concept/Terms |
Fluorouracil- Fluorouracil
- 5FU
- 5-FU
- 5-Fluorouracil
- 5 Fluorouracil
- Fluoruracil
Efudix- Efudix
- Fluoro-Uracile ICN
- Fluoro Uracile ICN
- Efudex
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Fluorouracil".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Fluorouracil".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fluorouracil" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fluorouracil" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Fluorouracil" by people in Profiles.