"Methane" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The simplest saturated hydrocarbon. It is a colorless, flammable gas, slightly soluble in water. It is one of the chief constituents of natural gas and is formed in the decomposition of organic matter. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
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D008697
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.571
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| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methane" by people in Profiles.
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Breath Methane Levels Are Increased Among Patients with Diverticulosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2016 09; 61(9):2648-54.
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Biological Screening of Newly Synthesized BIAN N-Heterocyclic Gold Carbene Complexes in Zebrafish Embryos. Int J Mol Sci. 2015 Oct 16; 16(10):24718-31.
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BIAN N-Heterocyclic Gold Carbene Complexes induced cytotoxicity in human cancer cells via upregulating oxidative stress. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2015; 16(16):7003-6.