Α-Ketovaleric acid explained

α-Ketovaleric acid is a keto acid that is found in human blood.[1] [2] [3] Unlike related keto acids, it is not an intermediate or metabolite associated with amino acids and its origin is unknown.[4]

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Notes and References

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  2. Lee . SH . Kim . SO . Chung . BC . Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of urinary oxoacids using O-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl)oxime-trimethylsilyl ester derivatization and cation-exchange chromatography . Journal of Chromatography B . 719 . 1–2 . 1–7 . 1998 . 9869358 . 10.1016/s0378-4347(98)00388-0.
  3. Wang . ZJ . Zaitsu . K . Ohkura . Y . High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of alpha-keto acids in human serum and urine using 1,2-diamino-4,5-methylenedioxybenzene as a precolumn fluorescence derivatization reagent . Journal of Chromatography . 430 . 2 . 223–31 . 1988 . 3235498 . 10.1016/s0378-4347(00)83157-6.
  4. http://www.nugowiki.org/index.php/2-Oxovaleric_acid European Nutrigenomics Organisation Metabolite Database

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