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Structure-Activity Relationship

"Structure-Activity Relationship" 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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The relationship between the chemical structure of a compound and its biological or pharmacological activity. Compounds are often classed together because they have structural characteristics in common including shape, size, stereochemical arrangement, and distribution of functional groups.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Structure-Activity Relationship" by people in this website by year, and whether "Structure-Activity Relationship" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 306 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2013
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