"Alcohols" 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.
Alkyl compounds containing a hydroxyl group. They are classified according to relation of the carbon atom: primary alcohols, R-CH2OH; secondary alcohols, R2-CHOH; tertiary alcohols, R3-COH. (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D000438
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Alcohols".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Alcohols".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Alcohols" by people in this website by year, and whether "Alcohols" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Alcohols" by people in Profiles.
-
Multicenter intervention program to increase adherence to hand hygiene recommendations and glove use and to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial resistance. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Jan; 28(1):42-9.
-
Effect of education on hand hygiene beliefs and practices: a 5-year program. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Jan; 28(1):88-91.
-
Impact of ring wearing on hand contamination and comparison of hand hygiene agents in a hospital. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Jun 01; 36(11):1383-90.
-
Alcohol-based hand gels and hand hygiene in hospitals. Lancet. 2002 Nov 09; 360(9344):1509-10; author reply 1511.
-
Controlling antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: infection control and use of antibiotics. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001 Mar-Apr; 7(2):188-92.
-
Ryanodine receptor of skeletal muscle is a gap junction-type channel. Science. 1988 Oct 07; 242(4875):99-102.