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Hexuronic Acids

"Hexuronic 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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Term used to designate tetrahydroxy aldehydic acids obtained by oxidation of hexose sugars, i.e. glucuronic acid, galacturonic acid, etc. Historically, the name hexuronic acid was originally given to ascorbic acid.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hexuronic Acids" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hexuronic Acids" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2009
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