"Acetylcarnitine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acetic acid ester of CARNITINE that facilitates movement of ACETYL COA into the matrices of mammalian MITOCHONDRIA during the oxidation of FATTY ACIDS.
| Descriptor ID |
D000108
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.877.883.099.090
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| Concept/Terms |
Acetylcarnitine- Acetylcarnitine
- Levocarnitine Acetyl
- Acetyl-L-Carnitine
- Acetyl L Carnitine
- Acetyl Carnitine
- Carnitine, Acetyl
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acetylcarnitine" by people in Profiles.
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Analgesia induced by the epigenetic drug, L-acetylcarnitine, outlasts the end of treatment in mouse models of chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Mol Pain. 2017 01; 13:1744806917697009.
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Dynamic monitoring of carnitine and acetylcarnitine in the trimethylamine signal after exercise in human skeletal muscle by 7T 1H-MRS. Magn Reson Med. 2013 Jan; 69(1):7-17.
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Functional characterization of the carnitine transporter defective in primary carnitine deficiency. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1999 Apr 01; 364(1):99-106.