Shikimic Acid
"Shikimic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A tri-hydroxy cyclohexene carboxylic acid important in biosynthesis of so many compounds that the shikimate pathway is named after it.
| Descriptor ID |
D012765
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.223.268.792 D02.241.511.852 D02.455.426.392.368.367.379.750
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| Concept/Terms |
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