National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Furanocoumarin
Synonyms

Furanocoumarin

Furanocoumarins

Furocoumarin

Furocoumarins

Definitions

A class of organic phytochemicals that consists of a furan ring fused with coumarin. Furanocoumarins are produced by plants as defensive toxins and, when ingested by humans, they can affect the metabolism of drugs by cytochrome P450 isoform CYP3A4.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C112046

CHEBI_ID

CHEBI:24128

code

C112046

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C142799

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C116977

Contributing_Source

CTRP

DEFINITION

A class of organic phytochemicals that consists of a furan ring fused with coumarin. Furanocoumarins are produced by plants as defensive toxins and, when ingested by humans, they can affect the metabolism of drugs by cytochrome P450 isoform CYP3A4.

Display_Name

Furanocoumarin

FULL_SYN

Furanocoumarin

Furanocoumarins

Furocoumarin

Furocoumarins

label

Furanocoumarin

Preferred_Name

Furanocoumarin

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C112046

Semantic_Type

Organic Chemical

UMLS_CUI

C0016859

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C45597

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