Glycine ELISA kits are designed for the specific detection of glycine in biological samples. Glycine is a compound that is metabolized in humans and can be detected in CSF, sweat, saliva, and serum samples. It has the chemical formula C2H5NO2. Glycine is an alpha-amino acid, part of the 20 proteinogenic amino acids essential for protein biosynthesis, found in all organisms. It is nonessential in humans, biosynthesized from serine, and involved in various biological functions, such as being a precursor to proteins, playing a role in DNA and hemoglobin production, and serving as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system.
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1 Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) v5.0