"Benzophenanthridines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Compounds of four rings containing a nitrogen. They are biosynthesized from reticuline via rearrangement of scoulerine. They are similar to BENZYLISOQUINOLINES. Members include chelerythrine and sanguinarine.
| Descriptor ID |
D053119
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.132.089 D03.494.633.207 D03.549.131
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