Preferred Name | vitamin E | |
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Definitions |
Any member of a group of fat-soluble chromanols that exhibit biological activity against vitamin E deficiency. The vitamers in this class consists of a chroman-6-ol core which is substituted at position 2 by a methyl group and (also at position 2) either a saturated or a triply-unsaturated hydrocarbon chain consisting of three isoprenoid units. The major function of vitamin E is to act as a natural antioxidant by scavenging free radicals and molecular oxygen. |
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ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33234 |
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alternative term |
vitamin e d-alpha-tocopherol |
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database_cross_reference | ||
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CHEBI:33234 |
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label |
vitamin E vitamin E |
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notation |
CHEBI:33234 |
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prefLabel |
vitamin E |
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textual definition |
Any member of a group of fat-soluble chromanols that exhibit biological activity against vitamin E deficiency. The vitamers in this class consists of a chroman-6-ol core which is substituted at position 2 by a methyl group and (also at position 2) either a saturated or a triply-unsaturated hydrocarbon chain consisting of three isoprenoid units. The major function of vitamin E is to act as a natural antioxidant by scavenging free radicals and molecular oxygen. |
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subClassOf |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDNO_0000014 |