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Spermine

"Spermine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A biogenic polyamine formed from spermidine. It is found in a wide variety of organisms and tissues and is an essential growth factor in some bacteria. It is found as a polycation at all pH values. Spermine is associated with nucleic acids, particularly in viruses, and is thought to stabilize the helical structure.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spermine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Spermine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1997 and 1999 and 2000 and 2010 and 2011 and 2017 and 2020 and 2022
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