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Glucuronic Acid

"Glucuronic Acid" 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 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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glucuronic Acid" by people in this website by year, and whether "Glucuronic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2017
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