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Organic Chemicals > Amidines > Guanidines > Creatine
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Amino Acids > Creatine

Preferred term

Creatine  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • do not confuse with CREATININE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE see PHOSPHOCREATINE

Scope note

  • An amino acid that occurs in vertebrate tissues and in urine. In muscle tissue, creatine generally occurs as phosphocreatine. Creatine is excreted as CREATININE in the urine.

History note

  • 68; CREATINE AND CREATININE was heading 1963-67

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003401

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