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MeSH Heading: Arsenic Trioxide
Tree Number(s): D01.075.038; D01.650.550.125
Unique ID: D000077237
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000077237
Scope Note: An inorganic compound with the chemical formula As2O3 that is used for the treatment of ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA in patients who have relapsed from, or are resistant to, conventional drug therapy.
Entry Term(s): Arsenic Oxide (As2O3); Arsenic Oxide (As4O6); Arsenic(III) Oxide; Arsenolite; Arsenous Anhydride; As2O3; As4O6; Diarsenic Trioxide; Naonobin; Tetra-Arsenic Hexaoxide; Tetra-Arsenic Oxide; Tetraarsenic Hexaoxide; Tetraarsenic Oxide; Trisenox; Trixenox
Pharm Action: Antineoplastic Agents
Related Numbers: 1327-53-3
Public MeSH Note: 2019; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE was indexed under ARSENICALS and OXIDES 1975-2018
History Note: 2019 (1975)
Date Established: 2019/01/01
Date of Entry: 2018/07/09
Revision Date: 2018/02/27

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Concept UI: M0049263
Related Numbers: 1327-53-3
Scope Note: An inorganic compound with the chemical formula As2O3 that is used for the treatment of ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA in patients who have relapsed from, or are resistant to, conventional drug therapy.
Terms: Arsenic Trioxide Preferred Term
Term UI T000938043
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Arsenic Oxide (As2O3)
Term UI T000938044
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag ABX
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Arsenic(III) Oxide
Term UI T000938045
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag ABX
ThesaurusID; Arsenous Anhydride
Term UI T000938046
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1975); Diarsenic Trioxide
Term UI T000938047
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; As2O3
Term UI T000906811
Date09/07/2016
LexicalTag ABB
ThesaurusID NLM (2017)

Concept UI: M0479370
Scope Note: A form of As2O3 that exists as As4O6 in the solid state. It dissociates to As2O3 upon heating to the vapor phase above 800 degrees Celsius.
Terms: Tetraarsenic Oxide Preferred Term
Term UI T000938049
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2005); Arsenic Oxide (As4O6)
Term UI T000938050
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag ABX
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Arsenolite
Term UI T000938051
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Tetra-Arsenic Hexaoxide
Term UI T000938052
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Tetra-Arsenic Oxide
Term UI T000938053
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Tetraarsenic Hexaoxide
Term UI T000938054
Date12/19/2017
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); As4O6
Term UI T627812
Date01/13/2005
LexicalTag ABB
ThesaurusID NLM (2005)

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