Quaternary Ammonium Compounds
"Quaternary Ammonium Compounds" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Derivatives of ammonium compounds, NH4+ Y-, in which all four of the hydrogens bonded to nitrogen have been replaced with hydrocarbyl groups. These are distinguished from IMINES which are RN=CR2.
| Descriptor ID |
D000644
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.625.062.500 D02.092.877 D02.675.276
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quaternary Ammonium Compounds" by people in Profiles.
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Photo-control of excitation waves in cardiomyocyte tissue culture. Tissue Eng Part A. 2011 Nov; 17(21-22):2703-11.
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Achievement of a synergistic adjuvant effect on arthritis induction by activation of innate immunity and forcing the immune response toward the Th1 phenotype. Arthritis Rheum. 2004 May; 50(5):1665-76.