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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Amino Acids > Amino Acids, Dicarboxylic > 2-Aminoadipic Acid
... > Organic Chemicals > Carboxylic Acids > Acids, Acyclic > Dicarboxylic Acids > Adipates > 2-Aminoadipic Acid

Preferred term

2-Aminoadipic Acid  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 2 Aminoadipic Acid
  • 2 Aminohexanedioic Acid
  • 2-Aminohexanedioic Acid
  • Acid, 2 Aminoadipic
  • Acid, 2-Aminohexanedioic
  • Acid, alpha-Aminoadipic
  • alpha Aminoadipic Acid
  • alpha-Aminoadipic Acid
  • Aminoadipic Acid, 2

Scope note

  • A metabolite in the principal biochemical pathway of lysine. It antagonizes neuroexcitatory activity modulated by the glutamate receptor, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; (NMDA).

History note

  • 91(76); was see under AMINO ACIDS, DICARBOXYLIC 1976-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015074

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