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Descriptor English: Glutathione
Descriptor Spanish: Glutatión
Descriptor glutatión
Scope note: Tripéptido con muchas funciones en las células. Se conjuga con fármacos haciéndolos más solubles para su excreción, es cofactor para muchas enzimas, está implicado en la redistribución de los puentes disulfuro en las proteínas y reduce los peróxidos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Glutationa
Descriptor French: Glutathion
Entry term(s): Glutathione, Reduced
Reduced Glutathione
gamma L Glu L Cys Gly
gamma L Glutamyl L Cysteinylglycine
gamma-L-Glu-L-Cys-Gly
gamma-L-Glutamyl-L-Cysteinylglycine
Tree number(s): D12.644.456.448
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005978
Scope note: A tripeptide with many roles in cells. It conjugates to drugs to make them more soluble for excretion, is a cofactor for some enzymes, is involved in protein disulfide bond rearrangement and reduces peroxides.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BI biosynthesis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
DE drug effects
DF deficiency
EC economics
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PH physiology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Registry Number: GAN16C9B8O
CAS Type 1 Name: Glycine, N-(N-L-gamma-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl)-
DeCS ID: 6122
Unique ID: D005978
NLM Classification: QU 68
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Glutathione - Preferred
Concept UI M0009388
Scope note A tripeptide with many roles in cells. It conjugates to drugs to make them more soluble for excretion, is a cofactor for some enzymes, is involved in protein disulfide bond rearrangement and reduces peroxides.
Preferred term Glutathione
Entry term(s) gamma L Glu L Cys Gly
gamma L Glutamyl L Cysteinylglycine
gamma-L-Glu-L-Cys-Gly
gamma-L-Glutamyl-L-Cysteinylglycine
Reduced Glutathione - Narrower
Concept UI M0009389
Preferred term Reduced Glutathione
Entry term(s) Glutathione, Reduced



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