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Understanding the Thalidomide Chirality in Biological Processes by the Self-disproportionation of Enantiomers

Twenty years after the thalidomide disaster in the late 1950s, Blaschke et al. reported that only the (S)-enantiomer of thalidomide is teratogenic. However, other work has shown that the enantiomers of thalidomide interconvert in vivo, which begs the question: why is teratogen activity not observed...

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Autores principales: Tokunaga, Etsuko, Yamamoto, Takeshi, Ito, Emi, Shibata, Norio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35457-6