"Xylitol" 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 five-carbon sugar alcohol derived from XYLOSE by reduction of the carbonyl group. It is as sweet as sucrose and used as a noncariogenic sweetener.
| Descriptor ID |
D014993
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.800.936 D09.853.936
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Xylitol".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Xylitol".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Xylitol" by people in this website by year, and whether "Xylitol" 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 |
|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Xylitol" by people in Profiles.
-
The Prevention of Developmental Delay and Xylitol (PDDaX) trial: study protocol of a nested cohort follow-up from the PPaX (Prevention of Prematurity and Xylitol) trial examining neurodevelopmental outcomes among offspring at 4-8?years of age in Malawi. Trials. 2025 Nov 14; 26(1):506.
-
A cluster randomized trial of xylitol chewing gum for prevention of preterm birth: The PPaX trial. Med. 2025 Apr 11; 6(4):100539.