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Glutamic Acid

"Glutamic 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 non-essential amino acid naturally occurring in the L-form. Glutamic acid is the most common excitatory neurotransmitter in the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glutamic Acid" by people in this website by year, and whether "Glutamic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 91 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2006
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