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p-aminohippurate; 2-[(4-aminobenzoyl)amino]acetic acid

Uses: - diagnostic agent used in the measurement of renal plasma flow - during world war II, given along with penicillin in order to prolong the 1/2life of penicillin Pharmacokinetics: - completely filtered from plasma in the nephron & not reabsorbed by the tubules, in a manner identical to inulin

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hippurate; hippuric acid; N-benzoylglycine; 2-benzamidoacetic acid

General

aniline; phenylamine; aminobenzene carboxylate diagnostic agent

Database Correlations

PUBCHEM correlations

References

  1. Wikipedia: Aminohippuric acid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminohippuric_acid