Spermidine
"Spermidine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A polyamine formed from putrescine. It is found in almost all tissues in association with nucleic acids. It is found as a cation at all pH values, and is thought to help stabilize some membranes and nucleic acid structures. It is a precursor of spermine.
| Descriptor ID |
D013095
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.211.415.701.801 D02.092.782.677
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spermidine" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Spermidine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Spermidine" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Zhou J, Pang J, Tripathi M, Ho JP, Widjaja AA, Shekeran SG, Cook SA, Suzuki A, Diehl AM, Petretto E, Singh BK, Yen PM. Spermidine-mediated hypusination of translation factor EIF5A improves mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and prevents non-alcoholic steatohepatitis progression. Nat Commun. 2022 09 03; 13(1):5202.