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Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring > Pyridines > Quinolinic Acids

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Quinolinic Acids  

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Scope note

  • Dicarboxylic acids with a PYRIDINE backbone. Quinolinic Acids are downstream products of the KYNURENINE pathway which metabolize amino acid TRYPTOPHAN.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under PYRIDINES 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011805

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