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penicillamine

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-004780

3-Mercapto-D-valine. The most characteristic degradation product of the penicillin antibiotics. It is used as an antirheumatic and as a chelating agent in Wilson's disease.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-004780
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2011; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsosulfur amino acids; penicillins
TranslationsSpanish: penicilamina
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-004780",
  "term": "penicillamine",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "3-Mercapto-D-valine. The most characteristic degradation product of the penicillin antibiotics. It is used as an antirheumatic and as a chelating agent in Wilson's disease.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "sulfur amino acids",
    "penicillins"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2011",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "penicilamina"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/penicillamine/"
}

Record 4,780 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.