"Glucuronic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A sugar acid formed by the oxidation of the C-6 carbon of GLUCOSE. In addition to being a key intermediate metabolite of the uronic acid pathway, glucuronic acid also plays a role in the detoxification of certain drugs and toxins by conjugating with them to form GLUCURONIDES.
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D020723
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D02.241.081.844.915.162.249 D02.241.152.811.162.500 D02.241.511.902.915.162.500 D09.811.922.162.500
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