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<metabolite>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <creation_date>2016-09-30 22:18:50 UTC</creation_date>
  <update_date>2020-06-04 22:16:22 UTC</update_date>
  <accession>BMDB0000039</accession>
  <secondary_accessions>
    <accession>BMDB00039</accession>
  </secondary_accessions>
  <name>Butyric acid</name>
  <description>Butyric acid, also known as butyrate or butanoic acid, belongs to the class of organic compounds known as straight chain fatty acids. These are fatty acids with a straight aliphatic chain. Butyric acid exists as a liquid, very hydrophobic, practically insoluble (in water), and relatively neutral molecule. Butyric acid exists in all living species, ranging from bacteria to humans. Butyric acid is a potentially toxic compound.</description>
  <synonyms>
    <synonym>1-Butanoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>1-Butyric acid</synonym>
    <synonym>1-Propanecarboxylic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>4:0</synonym>
    <synonym>Acide butanoique</synonym>
    <synonym>Acide butyrique</synonym>
    <synonym>Butanic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Butanoate</synonym>
    <synonym>Butanoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Butoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Buttersaeure</synonym>
    <synonym>C4:0</synonym>
    <synonym>CH3-[CH2]2-COOH</synonym>
    <synonym>Ethylacetic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>N-Butanoic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>N-Butyric acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Propanecarboxylic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Propylformic acid</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>1-Butanoate</synonym>
    <synonym>1-Butyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>1-Propanecarboxylate</synonym>
    <synonym>Butanate</synonym>
    <synonym>Butoate</synonym>
    <synonym>Ethylacetate</synonym>
    <synonym>N-Butanoate</synonym>
    <synonym>N-Butyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>Propanecarboxylate</synonym>
    <synonym>Propylformate</synonym>
    <synonym>Honey robber</synonym>
    <synonym>Kyselina maselna</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyrate, magnesium</synonym>
    <synonym>Magnesium butyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>Acid, butyric</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyrate, sodium</synonym>
    <synonym>Dibutyrate, magnesium</synonym>
    <synonym>Magnesium dibutyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>Sodium butyrate</synonym>
    <synonym>Acid, butanoic</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyric acid magnesium salt</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyric acid, sodium salt</synonym>
    <synonym>FA(4:0)</synonym>
    <synonym>Butyric acid</synonym>
  </synonyms>
  <chemical_formula>C4H8O2</chemical_formula>
  <average_molecular_weight>88.1051</average_molecular_weight>
  <monisotopic_moleculate_weight>88.0524295</monisotopic_moleculate_weight>
  <iupac_name>butanoic acid</iupac_name>
  <traditional_iupac>butyric acid</traditional_iupac>
  <cas_registry_number>107-92-6</cas_registry_number>
  <smiles>CCCC(O)=O</smiles>
  <inchi>InChI=1S/C4H8O2/c1-2-3-4(5)6/h2-3H2,1H3,(H,5,6)</inchi>
  <inchikey>FERIUCNNQQJTOY-UHFFFAOYSA-N</inchikey>
  <taxonomy>
    <description> belongs to the class of organic compounds known as straight chain fatty acids. These are fatty acids with a straight aliphatic chain.</description>
    <kingdom>Organic compounds</kingdom>
    <super_class>Lipids and lipid-like molecules</super_class>
    <class>Fatty Acyls</class>
    <sub_class>Fatty acids and conjugates</sub_class>
    <direct_parent>Straight chain fatty acids</direct_parent>
    <alternative_parents>
      <alternative_parent>Carbonyl compounds</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Carboxylic acids</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Hydrocarbon derivatives</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Monocarboxylic acids and derivatives</alternative_parent>
      <alternative_parent>Organic oxides</alternative_parent>
    </alternative_parents>
    <substituents>
      <substituent>Aliphatic acyclic compound</substituent>
      <substituent>Carbonyl group</substituent>
      <substituent>Carboxylic acid</substituent>
      <substituent>Carboxylic acid derivative</substituent>
      <substituent>Hydrocarbon derivative</substituent>
      <substituent>Monocarboxylic acid or derivatives</substituent>
      <substituent>Organic oxide</substituent>
      <substituent>Organic oxygen compound</substituent>
      <substituent>Organooxygen compound</substituent>
      <substituent>Straight chain fatty acid</substituent>
    </substituents>
    <molecular_framework>Aliphatic acyclic compounds</molecular_framework>
    <external_descriptors>
      <external_descriptor>Saturated fatty acids</external_descriptor>
      <external_descriptor>Straight chain fatty acids</external_descriptor>
      <external_descriptor>Straight chain fatty acids</external_descriptor>
      <external_descriptor>short-chain fatty acid</external_descriptor>
      <external_descriptor>straight-chain saturated fatty acid</external_descriptor>
    </external_descriptors>
  </taxonomy>
  <experimental_properties>
    <state>Liquid</state>
    <property>
      <kind>melting_point</kind>
      <value>-5.7 °C</value>
      <source/>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>water_solubility</kind>
      <value>60.0 mg/mL</value>
      <source/>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>logp</kind>
      <value>0.79</value>
      <source>HANSCH,C ET AL. (1995)</source>
    </property>
  </experimental_properties>
  <predicted_properties>
    <property>
      <kind>logp</kind>
      <value>0.78</value>
      <source>ALOGPS</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>logs</kind>
      <value>0.43</value>
      <source>ALOGPS</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>logp</kind>
      <value>0.92</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>pka_strongest_acidic</kind>
      <value>4.91</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>iupac</kind>
      <value>butanoic acid</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>average_mass</kind>
      <value>88.1051</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>mono_mass</kind>
      <value>88.0524295</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>smiles</kind>
      <value>CCCC(O)=O</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>formula</kind>
      <value>C4H8O2</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>inchi</kind>
      <value>InChI=1S/C4H8O2/c1-2-3-4(5)6/h2-3H2,1H3,(H,5,6)</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>inchikey</kind>
      <value>FERIUCNNQQJTOY-UHFFFAOYSA-N</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>polar_surface_area</kind>
      <value>37.3</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>refractivity</kind>
      <value>21.87</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>polarizability</kind>
      <value>9.22</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>rotatable_bond_count</kind>
      <value>2</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>acceptor_count</kind>
      <value>2</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>donor_count</kind>
      <value>1</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>physiological_charge</kind>
      <value>-1</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>formal_charge</kind>
      <value>0</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>number_of_rings</kind>
      <value>0</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>bioavailability</kind>
      <value>1</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>rule_of_five</kind>
      <value>Yes</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>ghose_filter</kind>
      <value>Yes</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>veber_rule</kind>
      <value>Yes</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
    <property>
      <kind>mddr_like_rule</kind>
      <value>Yes</value>
      <source>ChemAxon</source>
    </property>
  </predicted_properties>
  <pathways>
    <pathway>
      <name>Butyrate Metabolism</name>
      <smpdb_id>SMP0087185</smpdb_id>
      <kegg_map_id/>
    </pathway>
    <pathway>
      <name>Fatty Acid Biosynthesis</name>
      <smpdb_id>SMP0087257</smpdb_id>
      <kegg_map_id/>
    </pathway>
  </pathways>
  <spectra>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::EiMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>1145</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>1047</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>1124</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>2112</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>2805</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>5025</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrOneD</type>
      <spectrum_id>5026</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsIr</type>
      <spectrum_id>115</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsIr</type>
      <spectrum_id>116</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsIr</type>
      <spectrum_id>117</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::NmrTwoD</type>
      <spectrum_id>1105</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>3459</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>27166</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>29453</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>37261</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>99521</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>99522</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>171081</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::CMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>1047401</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>66</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>67</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>68</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2630</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2631</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2632</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2633</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2634</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>19868</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>19869</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>19870</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>21419</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>21420</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>21421</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>437337</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>437338</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>437339</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2464911</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2464912</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2464913</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2501321</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2501322</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
    <spectrum>
      <type>Specdb::MsMs</type>
      <spectrum_id>2501323</spectrum_id>
    </spectrum>
  </spectra>
  <normal_concentrations>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Fibroblasts</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Marcu A, Guo AC, Liang K, Vazquez-Fresno R, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Karu N, Sayeeda Z, Lo E, Assempour N, Berjanskii M, Singhal S, Arndt D, Liang Y, Badran H, Grant J, Serra-Cayuela A, Liu Y, Mandal R, Neveu V, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M, Manach C, Scalbert A: HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D608-D617. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1089.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29140435</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Intestine</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Marcu A, Guo AC, Liang K, Vazquez-Fresno R, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Karu N, Sayeeda Z, Lo E, Assempour N, Berjanskii M, Singhal S, Arndt D, Liang Y, Badran H, Grant J, Serra-Cayuela A, Liu Y, Mandal R, Neveu V, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M, Manach C, Scalbert A: HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D608-D617. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1089.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29140435</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Kidney</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Marcu A, Guo AC, Liang K, Vazquez-Fresno R, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Karu N, Sayeeda Z, Lo E, Assempour N, Berjanskii M, Singhal S, Arndt D, Liang Y, Badran H, Grant J, Serra-Cayuela A, Liu Y, Mandal R, Neveu V, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M, Manach C, Scalbert A: HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D608-D617. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1089.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29140435</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>37 +/- 1</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Commercial skim milk by LC–MS/MS </comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>34.9 +/- 0.2</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Commercial 1% milk by LC–MS/MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>24 +/- 1</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Commercial 2% milk by LC–MS/MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>27 +/- 1</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Commercial 3.25% milk by LC–MS/MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>33 +/- 5</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>1% milk by NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>37 +/- 2</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>2% milk by NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>41 +/- 3</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>3.25% milk by NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>52.55 +/- 6.31</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Free fatty acid in raw milk from a Danish Holstein herd by GC-MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Bashar Amer, Caroline Nebel, Hanne C. Bertram, Grith Mortensen, Kjeld Hermansen, Trine K. Dalsgaard. Novel method for quantification of individual free fatty acids in milk using an in-solution derivatisation approach and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Dairy Journal 32 (2013) 199-203</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>42 +/- 4</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Skim milk by NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Foroutan A, Guo AC, Vazquez-Fresno R, Lipfert M, Zhang L, Zheng J, Badran H, Budinski Z, Mandal R, Ametaj BN, Wishart DS: Chemical Composition of Commercial Cow's Milk. J Agric Food Chem. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00204.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>30994344</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>56.75 +/- 5.46</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Free fatty acid in commercial Danish pasteurised whole milk (3.5% fat) by GC-MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Bashar Amer, Caroline Nebel, Hanne C. Bertram, Grith Mortensen, Kjeld Hermansen, Trine K. Dalsgaard. Novel method for quantification of individual free fatty acids in milk using an in-solution derivatisation approach and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Dairy Journal 32 (2013) 199-203</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>21.84 +/- 3.36</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Free fatty acid in commercial Danish pasteurised semi skimmed milk (1.5% fat) by GC-MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Bashar Amer, Caroline Nebel, Hanne C. Bertram, Grith Mortensen, Kjeld Hermansen, Trine K. Dalsgaard. Novel method for quantification of individual free fatty acids in milk using an in-solution derivatisation approach and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Dairy Journal 32 (2013) 199-203</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>20.16 +/- 5.04</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Free fatty acid in commercial Danish pasteurised skimmed milk (0.1% fat) by GC-MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Bashar Amer, Caroline Nebel, Hanne C. Bertram, Grith Mortensen, Kjeld Hermansen, Trine K. Dalsgaard. Novel method for quantification of individual free fatty acids in milk using an in-solution derivatisation approach and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Dairy Journal 32 (2013) 199-203</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Jensen RG, Ferris AM, Lammi-Keefe CJ: The composition of milk fat. J Dairy Sci. 1991 Sep;74(9):3228-43. doi: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(91)78509-3.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>1779072</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>46.08 +/- 0.72</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Free fatty acid in raw milk by GC-MS</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Bashar Amer, Caroline Nebel, Hanne C. Bertram, Grith Mortensen, Kjeld Hermansen, Trine K. Dalsgaard. Novel method for quantification of individual free fatty acids in milk using an in-solution derivatisation approach and gas chromatography- mass spectrometry. International Dairy Journal 32 (2013) 199-203</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>31780.262 +/- 12485.103</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Raw milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Soyeurt H, Dardenne P, Dehareng F, Lognay G, Veselko D, Marlier M, Bertozzi C, Mayeres P, Gengler N: Estimating fatty acid content in cow milk using mid-infrared spectrometry. J Dairy Sci. 2006 Sep;89(9):3690-5. doi: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72409-2.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>16899705</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>44.606 +/- 0.76</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Whole milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
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          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>43.93 +/- 16.09</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Raw milk metabolite measured during mid-lactation from cows fed diets consisting of perennial ryegrass (GRS), by 1H-NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>O'Callaghan TF, Vazquez-Fresno R, Serra-Cayuela A, Dong E, Mandal R, Hennessy D, McAuliffe S, Dillon P, Wishart DS, Stanton C, Ross RP: Pasture Feeding Changes the Bovine Rumen and Milk Metabolome. Metabolites. 2018 Apr 6;8(2). pii: metabo8020027. doi: 10.3390/metabo8020027.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29642378</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Milk samples collected from 456 Danish Holstein cows </comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Buitenhuis AJ, Sundekilde UK, Poulsen NA, Bertram HC, Larsen LB, Sorensen P: Estimation of genetic parameters and detection of quantitative trait loci for metabolites in Danish Holstein milk. J Dairy Sci. 2013 May;96(5):3285-95. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5914. Epub 2013 Mar 15.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>23497994</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Milk samples from Danish Holstein-Friesian (n = 456) and Jersey cows (n = 436)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Sundekilde UK, Poulsen NA, Larsen LB, Bertram HC: Nuclear magnetic resonance metabonomics reveals strong association between milk metabolites and somatic cell count in bovine milk. J Dairy Sci. 2013 Jan;96(1):290-9. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5819. Epub 2012 Nov 22.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>23182357</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Whole milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>GARTON GA: THE COMPOSITION AND BIOSYNTHESIS OF MILK LIPIDS. J Lipid Res. 1963 Jul;4:237-54.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>14168161</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Whole milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Jensen RG: The composition of bovine milk lipids: January 1995 to December 2000. J Dairy Sci. 2002 Feb;85(2):295-350. doi: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74079-4.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>11913692</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Whole milk  from markets</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Scano P, Murgia A, Pirisi FM, Caboni P: A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-based metabolomic approach for the characterization of goat milk compared with cow milk. J Dairy Sci. 2014 Oct;97(10):6057-66. doi: 10.3168/jds.2014-8247. Epub 2014 Aug 6.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>25108860</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>407 Milk samples from Swedish Red cows</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Sundekilde UK, Gustavsson F, Poulsen NA, Glantz M, Paulsson M, Larsen LB, Bertram HC: Association between the bovine milk metabolome and rennet-induced coagulation properties of milk. J Dairy Sci. 2014 Oct;97(10):6076-84. doi: 10.3168/jds.2014-8304. Epub 2014 Jul 30.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>25087032</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>6923.55</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, partly skim, conventional (not organic), 1.5 % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>5675.04</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, partly skim, organic, 1.5 % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>35.91 +/- 16.47</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Raw milk metabolite measured during mid-lactation from cows fed diets consisting of perennial ryegrass and white clover (CLV), by 1H-NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>O'Callaghan TF, Vazquez-Fresno R, Serra-Cayuela A, Dong E, Mandal R, Hennessy D, McAuliffe S, Dillon P, Wishart DS, Stanton C, Ross RP: Pasture Feeding Changes the Bovine Rumen and Milk Metabolome. Metabolites. 2018 Apr 6;8(2). pii: metabo8020027. doi: 10.3390/metabo8020027.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29642378</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>1135.00808</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Skim milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>2724.0194</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, skim, 0.5 % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>17138.641 +/- 2724.0225</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>The samples were collected from crossbred Holstein × Normande dairy cows, Montbéliarde cattles and Prim'Holstein. The fat content was estimated by MIR spectrometry. This the calibration set of samples</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>M. Ferrand et al. Determination of fatty acid profile in cow's milk using mid-infrared spectrometry: Interest of applying a variable selection by genetic algorithms before a PLS regression. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 106 (2011) 183?189</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>1135.00808</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, skim, organic</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>16798.139 +/- 2837.523</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>The samples were collected from crossbred Holstein × Normande dairy cows, Montbéliarde cattles and Prim'Holstein. The fat content was estimated by MIR spectrometry. This the validation set of samples</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>M. Ferrand et al. Determination of fatty acid profile in cow's milk using mid-infrared spectrometry: Interest of applying a variable selection by genetic algorithms before a PLS regression. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 106 (2011) 183?189</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>13393.0953</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, whole, 3.5, (UHT), % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>14641.6</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, whole, conventional (not organic), 3.5 % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>12485.09</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Milk, whole, organic, 3.5 % fat</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fooddata+, The Technical University of Denmark (DTU): https://frida.fooddata.dk/QueryFood.php?fn=milk&amp;lang=en</reference_text>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Commercial, conventional whole milk</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lawrence K. Creamer, Alastair K.H. MacGibbon. Some recent advances in the basic chemistry of milk proteins and lipids. International Dairy J. (1996) 6(6):539-568   doi: 10.1016/0958-6946(96)85309-X</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>This is a duplicate concentration of concentration_id 8156, unpexported by An Chi on Aug 20, 2018</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lawrence K. Creamer, Alastair K.H. MacGibbon. Some recent advances in the basic chemistry of milk proteins and lipids. International Dairy J. (1996) 6(6):539-568   doi: 10.1016/0958-6946(96)85309-X</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>0.9 (0.7 - 1.2)</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>3.5%</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Harper, W. J., Gould, I. A. and Hankinson, C. L. 1961. Observations on the free volatile acids in milk. J. Dairy Sci. 44, 1764-1765</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>0.8 (0.6 - 1.1)</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>3.5%</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Harper, W. J., Gould, I. A. and Hankinson, C. L. 1961. Observations on the free volatile acids in milk. J. Dairy Sci. 44, 1764-1765</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>29.22 +/- 5.72</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Raw milk metabolite measured during mid-lactation from cows fed diets consisting of total mixed ration (TMR), by 1H-NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>O'Callaghan TF, Vazquez-Fresno R, Serra-Cayuela A, Dong E, Mandal R, Hennessy D, McAuliffe S, Dillon P, Wishart DS, Stanton C, Ross RP: Pasture Feeding Changes the Bovine Rumen and Milk Metabolome. Metabolites. 2018 Apr 6;8(2). pii: metabo8020027. doi: 10.3390/metabo8020027.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29642378</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>1.2 (0.8 - 2.4)</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>3.5%</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Harper, W. J., Gould, I. A. and Hankinson, C. L. 1961. Observations on the free volatile acids in milk. J. Dairy Sci. 44, 1764-1765</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Milk</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>5.6 (2.4 - 9.6)</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>3.5%</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Harper, W. J., Gould, I. A. and Hankinson, C. L. 1961. Observations on the free volatile acids in milk. J. Dairy Sci. 44, 1764-1765</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Neuron</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Marcu A, Guo AC, Liang K, Vazquez-Fresno R, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Karu N, Sayeeda Z, Lo E, Assempour N, Berjanskii M, Singhal S, Arndt D, Liang Y, Badran H, Grant J, Serra-Cayuela A, Liu Y, Mandal R, Neveu V, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M, Manach C, Scalbert A: HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D608-D617. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1089.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29140435</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Prostate Tissue</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Wishart DS, Feunang YD, Marcu A, Guo AC, Liang K, Vazquez-Fresno R, Sajed T, Johnson D, Li C, Karu N, Sayeeda Z, Lo E, Assempour N, Berjanskii M, Singhal S, Arndt D, Liang Y, Badran H, Grant J, Serra-Cayuela A, Liu Y, Mandal R, Neveu V, Pon A, Knox C, Wilson M, Manach C, Scalbert A: HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Jan 4;46(D1):D608-D617. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1089.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29140435</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>7000-13000</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lee HJ, Jung JY, Oh YK, Lee SS, Madsen EL, Jeon CO: Comparative survey of rumen microbial communities and metabolites across one caprine and three bovine groups, using bar-coded pyrosequencing and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Sep;78(17):5983-93. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00104-12. Epub  2012 Jun 15.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22706048</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>10519-17242</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>O'Callaghan TF, Vazquez-Fresno R, Serra-Cayuela A, Dong E, Mandal R, Hennessy D, McAuliffe S, Dillon P, Wishart DS, Stanton C, Ross RP: Pasture Feeding Changes the Bovine Rumen and Milk Metabolome. Metabolites. 2018 Apr 6;8(2). pii: metabo8020027. doi: 10.3390/metabo8020027.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>29642378</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>689</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Primiparous Holstein cows fed barley grains (15% of diet dry matter)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Burim NA, Qendrim Z, Fozia S, Psychogios N, Michael JL, Dunn SM, Jianguo X, Wishart DS. Metabolomics reveals unhealthy alterations in rumen metabolism with increased proportion of cereal grain in the diet of dairy cows. Metabolomics. 2010;6(4):583-594   doi: 10.1007/s11306-010-0227-6</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>642</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Primiparous Holstein cows fed barley grains (30% of diet dry matter)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Burim NA, Qendrim Z, Fozia S, Psychogios N, Michael JL, Dunn SM, Jianguo X, Wishart DS. Metabolomics reveals unhealthy alterations in rumen metabolism with increased proportion of cereal grain in the diet of dairy cows. Metabolomics. 2010;6(4):583-594   doi: 10.1007/s11306-010-0227-6</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>19300</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Primiparous Holstein cows fed barley grains (45% of diet dry matter)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Burim NA, Qendrim Z, Fozia S, Psychogios N, Michael JL, Dunn SM, Jianguo X, Wishart DS. Metabolomics reveals unhealthy alterations in rumen metabolism with increased proportion of cereal grain in the diet of dairy cows. Metabolomics. 2010;6(4):583-594   doi: 10.1007/s11306-010-0227-6</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>7970</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Primiparous Holstein cows, no barley grains in diet.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Burim NA, Qendrim Z, Fozia S, Psychogios N, Michael JL, Dunn SM, Jianguo X, Wishart DS. Metabolomics reveals unhealthy alterations in rumen metabolism with increased proportion of cereal grain in the diet of dairy cows. Metabolomics. 2010;6(4):583-594   doi: 10.1007/s11306-010-0227-6</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Detected by NMR in mid-lactating primiparous Holstein cows.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Zhao S, Zhao J, Bu D, Sun P, Wang J, Dong Z: Metabolomics analysis reveals large effect of roughage types on rumen microbial metabolic profile in dairy cows. Lett Appl Microbiol. 2014 Jul;59(1):79-85. doi: 10.1111/lam.12247. Epub 2014 Apr  4.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>24617926</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>25848 +/- 9273</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Aidin Foroutan, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Rupasri Mandal, Hamed Piri‐Moghadam, Jiamin Zheng, AnChi Guo, Carin Li, Le Luo Guan and David S. Wishart. The Bovine Metabolome. Metabolites 2020, 10, 233; doi:10.3390/metabo10060233</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Detected by NMR in bovines in growth and fattening stages.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lee HJ, Jung JY, Oh YK, Lee SS, Madsen EL, Jeon CO: Comparative survey of rumen microbial communities and metabolites across one caprine and three bovine groups, using bar-coded pyrosequencing and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Sep;78(17):5983-93. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00104-12. Epub  2012 Jun 15.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22706048</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Detected by NMR in bovines in growth and fattening stages.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lee HJ, Jung JY, Oh YK, Lee SS, Madsen EL, Jeon CO: Comparative survey of rumen microbial communities and metabolites across one caprine and three bovine groups, using bar-coded pyrosequencing and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Sep;78(17):5983-93. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00104-12. Epub  2012 Jun 15.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22706048</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Detected by NMR in bovines in growth and fattening stages.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Lee HJ, Jung JY, Oh YK, Lee SS, Madsen EL, Jeon CO: Comparative survey of rumen microbial communities and metabolites across one caprine and three bovine groups, using bar-coded pyrosequencing and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Sep;78(17):5983-93. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00104-12. Epub  2012 Jun 15.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22706048</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value/>
      <concentration_units/>
      <comment>Detected by NMR in male Holstein cows.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Hanne Christine Bertram, Niels Bastian Kristensen, Mogens Vestergaard, SÃ¸ren Krogh Jensen, Jakob Sehested, Niels Christian Nielsen, Anders Malmendal. Metabolic characterization of rumen epithelial tissue from dairy calves fed different starter diets using 1H NMR spectroscopy. Livestock Science (2008) 120:127-134   doi: 10.1016/j.livsci.2008.05.001</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>9386.24 +/- 1366.99</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri Mandal, Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart. The Bovine Ruminal Fluid Metabolome. Metabolomics (2013) 9:360–378.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>8100</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Daily cows fed barley grains (15% of diet dry matter) (n=8)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Saleem F, Ametaj BN, Bouatra S, Mandal R, Zebeli Q, Dunn SM, Wishart DS: A metabolomics approach to uncover the effects of grain diets on rumen health in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci. 2012 Nov;95(11):6606-23. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5403. Epub 2012 Sep 7.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22959937</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>8030</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Daily cows fed barley grains (30% of diet dry matter) (n=8)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Saleem F, Ametaj BN, Bouatra S, Mandal R, Zebeli Q, Dunn SM, Wishart DS: A metabolomics approach to uncover the effects of grain diets on rumen health in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci. 2012 Nov;95(11):6606-23. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5403. Epub 2012 Sep 7.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22959937</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>15130</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. Daily cows fed barley grains (45% of diet dry matter) (n=8)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Saleem F, Ametaj BN, Bouatra S, Mandal R, Zebeli Q, Dunn SM, Wishart DS: A metabolomics approach to uncover the effects of grain diets on rumen health in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci. 2012 Nov;95(11):6606-23. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5403. Epub 2012 Sep 7.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22959937</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>9380</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>By NMR. No barley grains in diet (n=8)</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Saleem F, Ametaj BN, Bouatra S, Mandal R, Zebeli Q, Dunn SM, Wishart DS: A metabolomics approach to uncover the effects of grain diets on rumen health in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci. 2012 Nov;95(11):6606-23. doi: 10.3168/jds.2012-5403. Epub 2012 Sep 7.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id>22959937</pubmed_id>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>8100 +/- 1350</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Samples have been collected from 8 healthy primiparous Holstein cow fed barley grains (15% of diet dry matter). </comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri Mandal, Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart. The Bovine Ruminal Fluid Metabolome. Metabolomics (2013) 9:360–378.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>8103 +/- 1631</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Samples have been collected from 8 healthy primiparous Holstein cow fed barley grains (30% of diet dry matter). </comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri Mandal, Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart. The Bovine Ruminal Fluid Metabolome. Metabolomics (2013) 9:360–378.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>15131 +/- 2957</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Samples have been collected from 8 healthy primiparous Holstein cow fed barley grains (45% of diet dry matter). </comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri Mandal, Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart. The Bovine Ruminal Fluid Metabolome. Metabolomics (2013) 9:360–378.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
    <concentration>
      <biospecimen>Ruminal Fluid</biospecimen>
      <concentration_value>9386 +/- 1367</concentration_value>
      <concentration_units>uM</concentration_units>
      <comment>Samples have been collected from 8 healthy primiparous Holstein cow, no barley grains in diet.</comment>
      <references>
        <reference>
          <reference_text>Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri Mandal, Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart. The Bovine Ruminal Fluid Metabolome. Metabolomics (2013) 9:360–378.</reference_text>
          <pubmed_id/>
        </reference>
      </references>
    </concentration>
  </normal_concentrations>
  <kegg_id>C00246</kegg_id>
  <chemspider_id>259</chemspider_id>
  <drugbank_id>DB03568</drugbank_id>
  <foodb_id>FDB031031</foodb_id>
  <pubchem_compound_id>264</pubchem_compound_id>
  <pdbe_id/>
  <chebi_id>30772</chebi_id>
  <meta_cyc_id>BUTYRIC_ACID</meta_cyc_id>
  <knapsack_id>C00001180</knapsack_id>
  <phenol_explorer_compound_id/>
  <bigg_id>34376</bigg_id>
  <wikipedia_id>Butyric_acid</wikipedia_id>
  <metlin_id>107</metlin_id>
  <synthesis_reference>Shan, Zhiping.  Preparation of butyric acid by hydrogenation of maleic anhydride. U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ.  (2008),     6pp.</synthesis_reference>
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  <protein_associations>
    <protein>
      <protein_accession>BMDBP00368</protein_accession>
      <name>Fatty acid synthase</name>
      <uniprot_id>Q71SP7</uniprot_id>
      <gene_name>FASN</gene_name>
      <protein_type>Enzyme</protein_type>
    </protein>
  </protein_associations>
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