"Indican" 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.
A substance occurring in the urine of mammals and also in blood plasma as the normal metabolite of tryptophan. An increased urinary excretion of indican is seen in Hartnup disease from the bacterial degradation of unabsorbed tryptophan.
| Descriptor ID |
D007200
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.473.393
|
| Concept/Terms |
Indican- Indican
- Indoxyl Sulfate
- Sulfate, Indoxyl
- 1H-Indol-3-ol Hydrogen Sulfate Ester
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Indican".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Indican".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Indican" by people in this website by year, and whether "Indican" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Indican" by people in Profiles.
-
Indoxyl sulfate is associated with mortality after AKI - more evidence needed! BMC Nephrol. 2019 07 26; 20(1):280.
-
Results of the HEMO Study suggest that p-cresol sulfate and indoxyl sulfate are not associated?with?cardiovascular outcomes. Kidney Int. 2017 12; 92(6):1484-1492.
-
Free and total p-cresol sulfate levels and infectious hospitalizations in hemodialysis patients in CHOICE and HEMO. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Feb; 96(6):e5799.
-
Effect of a sustained difference in hemodialytic clearance on the plasma levels of p-cresol sulfate and indoxyl sulfate. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2016 08; 31(8):1335-41.
-
Free Levels of Selected Organic Solutes and Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients: Results from the Retained Organic Solutes and Clinical Outcomes (ROSCO) Investigators. PLoS One. 2015; 10(5):e0126048.
-
Serum metabolomic profiling and incident CKD among African Americans. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Aug 07; 9(8):1410-7.
-
Retained organic solutes, patient characteristics and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis: results from the retained organic solutes and clinical outcomes (ROSCO) investigators. BMC Nephrol. 2013 Jun 27; 14:134.
-
Purple urine bag syndrome in a patient with a nephrostomy tube. N Z Med J. 2010 Apr 09; 123(1312):68-70.