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Aspartic Acid

"Aspartic 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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One of the non-essential amino acids commonly occurring in the L-form. It is found in animals and plants, especially in sugar cane and sugar beets. It may be a neurotransmitter.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Aspartic Acid" by people in this website by year, and whether "Aspartic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 40 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2005 and 2007
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