"Biotransformation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The chemical alteration of an exogenous substance by or in a biological system. The alteration may inactivate the compound or it may result in the production of an active metabolite of an inactive parent compound. The alterations may be divided into METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE I and METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE II.
Descriptor ID |
D001711
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MeSH Number(s) |
G03.495.244 G07.690.812.097 G07.700.680.097
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Concept/Terms |
Activation, Metabolic- Activation, Metabolic
- Activations, Metabolic
- Metabolic Activations
- Metabolic Activation
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1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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