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Abstract
Protein exotoxins from Staphylococcus aureus, phage type II, which cause epidermal necrolysis. They are proteins with a molecular weight of 26,000 to 32,000. They cause a condition variously called scaled skin, Lyell or Ritter syndrome, epidermal exfoliative disease, toxic epidermal necrolysis, etc.
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Pharmacological Action
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Synonyms
13 entry terms
- Epidermolysins
- Staphylococcal Exfoliative Toxin
- Exfoliative Toxin, Staphylococcal
- Toxin, Staphylococcal Exfoliative
- Dermolysins
- Epidermolytic Toxins
- Exfoliatin Toxin A
- Exfoliative Toxin B
- Exfoliative Toxins
- Toxin A, Exfoliatin
- Toxin B, Exfoliative
- Toxins, Epidermolytic
- Toxins, Exfoliative
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26 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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Indexing Annotation
/antag permitted but consider also ANTITOXINS
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History Note
91(78); was see under BACTERIAL TOXINS 1978-90
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Previous Indexing
- Bacterial Proteins (1966-1976)
- Bacterial Toxins (1977)
- Staphylococcal Infections (1966-1977)
- Toxins (1966-1976)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Exfoliatins. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005083. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005083
- Exfoliatins. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exfoliatin
- Exfoliatins. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1383734