"Benzoic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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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Jackson AA, Badaloo AV, Forrester T, Hibbert JM, Persaud C. Urinary excretion of 5-oxoproline (pyroglutamic aciduria) as an index of glycine insufficiency in normal man. Br J Nutr. 1987 Sep; 58(2):207-14.