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Amino Acids

"Amino Acids" 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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Organic compounds that generally contain an amino (-NH2) and a carboxyl (-COOH) group. Twenty alpha-amino acids are the subunits which are polymerized to form proteins.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Amino Acids" by people in this website by year, and whether "Amino Acids" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 112 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2006
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