"Amino 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.
Organic compounds that generally contain an amino (-NH2) and a carboxyl (-COOH) group. Twenty alpha-amino acids are the subunits which are polymerized to form proteins.
| Descriptor ID |
D000596
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.125
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Amino Acids".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Amino Acids".
- Amino Acids
- Alanine
- Amino Acid Chloromethyl Ketones
- Amino Acids, Acidic
- Amino Acids, Basic
- Amino Acids, Branched-Chain
- Amino Acids, Cyclic
- Amino Acids, Diamino
- Amino Acids, Dicarboxylic
- Amino Acids, Essential
- Amino Acids, Neutral
- Amino Acids, Sulfur
- Aminobutyrates
- Aminocaproates
- Aminolevulinic Acid
- Canavanine
- Creatine
- Excitatory Amino Acids
- Glycine
- Homoserine
- Kynurenine
- Oxamic Acid
- Phosphoamino Acids
- Quisqualic Acid
- RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl
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