"Psoralens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Linear furanocoumarins which are found in many PLANTS, especially UMBELLIFERAE and RUTACEAE, as well as PSORALEA from which they were originally discovered. They can intercalate DNA and, in an UV-initiated reaction of the furan portion, alkylate PYRIMIDINES, resulting in PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS.
| Descriptor ID |
D011564
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.150.446.794 D03.494.770 D03.830.219.446.794
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