"Benzoic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A fungistatic compound that is widely used as a food preservative. It is conjugated to GLYCINE in the liver and excreted as hippuric acid.
| Descriptor ID |
D019817
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.223.100.120 D02.455.426.559.389.127.117
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| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Benzoic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Alleviation of Huntington pathology in mice by oral administration of food additive glyceryl tribenzoate. Neurobiol Dis. 2021 06; 153:105318.