Butyric Acid
"Butyric Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A four carbon acid, CH3CH2CH2COOH, with an unpleasant odor that occurs in butter and animal fat as the glycerol ester.
| Descriptor ID |
D020148
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.081.114.750 D10.251.400.143.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Butyric Acid- Butyric Acid
- Acid, Butyric
- Butanoic Acid
- Acid, Butanoic
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| 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Butyric Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Povinelli CM, Stewart JM, Knoll BJ. Differential and coordinate responses of the human genes encoding the heat stable alkaline phosphatases to cAMP and sodium butyrate in the choriocarcinoma line JEG-3. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1992 Jan 23; 1115(3):243-51.