"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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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Glucuronic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Menon SV, Sandhwar V, Chaudhary S, Bhanot D, Arulselvan P, Govindasamy C, Khan MI, Suriyaprakash J, Thangavelu I, Boopathi TS. TiO2-sodium alginate core-shell nanosystem for higher antimicrobial wound healing application. Int J Biol Macromol. 2025 Apr; 300:139923.
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Vikram A, Lipus D, Bibby K. Metatranscriptome analysis of active microbial communities in produced water samples from the Marcellus Shale. Microb Ecol. 2016 10; 72(3):571-81.
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Mueller M, Kolbrich-Spargo EA, Peters FT, Huestis MA, Ricaurte GA, Maurer HH. Hydrolysis of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) metabolite conjugates in human, squirrel monkey, and rat plasma. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2009 Mar; 393(6-7):1607-17.