Indican
"Indican" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A substance occurring in the urine of mammals and also in blood plasma as the normal metabolite of tryptophan. An increased urinary excretion of indican is seen in Hartnup disease from the bacterial degradation of unabsorbed tryptophan.
| Descriptor ID |
D007200
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.473.393
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| Concept/Terms |
Indican- Indican
- Indoxyl Sulfate
- Sulfate, Indoxyl
- 1H-Indol-3-ol Hydrogen Sulfate Ester
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Indican" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Brydges CR, Fiehn O, Mayberg HS, Schreiber H, Dehkordi SM, Bhattacharyya S, Cha J, Choi KS, Craighead WE, Krishnan RR, Rush AJ, Dunlop BW, Kaddurah-Daouk R. Indoxyl sulfate, a gut microbiome-derived uremic toxin, is associated with psychic anxiety and its functional magnetic resonance imaging-based neurologic signature. Sci Rep. 2021 10 25; 11(1):21011.