 Glucuronic Acid
"Glucuronic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A sugar acid formed by the oxidation of the C-6 carbon of GLUCOSE. In addition to being a key intermediate metabolite of the uronic acid pathway, glucuronic acid also plays a role in the detoxification of certain drugs and toxins by conjugating with them to form GLUCURONIDES.
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D020723
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D02.241.081.844.915.162.249 D02.241.152.811.162.500 D02.241.511.902.915.162.500 D09.811.922.162.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glucuronic Acid" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Glucuronic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Glucuronic Acid" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Oh B, Melchert RB, Lee CH. Biomimicking Robust Hydrogel for the Mesenchymal Stem Cell Carrier. Pharm Res. 2015 Oct; 32(10):3213-27.
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DelNero P, Lane M, Verbridge SS, Kwee B, Kermani P, Hempstead B, Stroock A, Fischbach C. 3D culture broadly regulates tumor cell hypoxia response and angiogenesis via pro-inflammatory pathways. Biomaterials. 2015 Jul; 55:110-8.
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