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Methylation

"Methylation" 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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Addition of methyl groups. In histo-chemistry methylation is used to esterify carboxyl groups and remove sulfate groups by treating tissue sections with hot methanol in the presence of hydrochloric acid. (From Stedman, 25th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Methylation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Methylation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 192 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2018
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