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hexanoic acid

Known as: Caproic Acid, capronic Acid, Fatty Acid 6:0 
A saturated medium-chain fatty acid with a 6-carbon backbone. Caproic acid is found naturally in various plant and animal fats and oils.
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Broader (4)

CaproatesFatty Acids, VolatileHexanoic Acidssaturated carboxylic acid

Narrower (5)

Penicillic Acidbismuth(III)hexanoatehexanoatehexanoic acid, calcium salt

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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Photoinitiated crosslinked degradable copolymer networks for tissue engineering applications.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Development of a headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method for the identification of odour-causing volatile compounds in packaging materials.
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Demonstration of the catalytic roles and evidence for the physical association of type I fatty acid synthases and a polyketide synthase in the biosynthesis of aflatoxin B1.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Follicular plasminogen activator: involvement in ovulation.
Production of plasminogen activator (PA) by granulosa cells (GC) and its stimulation by gonadotropins led to the suggestion that… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Production of auto-anti-idiotypic antibody during the normal immune response to TNP-ficoll. I. Occurrence in AKR/J and BALB/c mice of hapten-augmentable, anti-TNP plaque-forming cells and their…
Attempts were made to elucidate the cause of the downward regulation of the splenic plaque-forming cell (PFC) response in AKR/J… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Production of auto-anti-idiotypic antibody during the normal immune response to TNP-ficoll. II. Hapten-reversible inhibition of anti-TNP plaque-forming cells by immune serum as an assay for auto-anti…
Sera taken from AKR/J mice 7 d after the intravenous injection of 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl-lys-Ficoll (TNP-F) caused a specific… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Inhibition of bovine heart Na+, K+-ATPase by palmitylcarnitine and palmityl-CoA.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Unique pattern of fibrinogen cleavage by human leukocyte proteases.
An extract of human Ieukocytes was prepared which had marked fibrinogenolytic activity, as determined by its effect upon the… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
THE FIXATION OF COMPLEMENT AND THE ACTIVATED FIRST COMPONENT (C1) OF COMPLEMENT BY COMPLEXES FORMED BETWEEN ANTIBODY AND DIVALENT HAPTEN
Hapten-antibody complexes prepared at equivalence with the bivalent hapten bis-DNP-octamethylene-diamine and purified rabbit anti… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Enzymic processes and vascular changes in the skin radiation reaction.
Factors influencing the early phase of the inflammatory reaction occurring within minutes after irradiation have been studied… 
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