"Aminolevulinic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A compound produced from succinyl-CoA and GLYCINE as an intermediate in heme synthesis. It is used as a PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY for actinic KERATOSIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D000622
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.755.547.276 D12.125.262
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| Concept/Terms |
Aminolevulinic Acid- Aminolevulinic Acid
- Acid, Aminolevulinic
- Delta-Aminolevulinic Acid
- Acid, Delta-Aminolevulinic
- Delta Aminolevulinic Acid
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Aminolevulinic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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ALA-induced porphyrin accumulation in medulloblastoma and its use for fluorescence-guided surgery. Cent Eur Neurosurg. 2011 May; 72(2):101-3.
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