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Purines

"Purines" 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.

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A series of heterocyclic compounds that are variously substituted in nature and are known also as purine bases. They include ADENINE and GUANINE, constituents of nucleic acids, as well as many alkaloids such as CAFFEINE and THEOPHYLLINE. Uric acid is the metabolic end product of purine metabolism.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Purines" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Purines" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006
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