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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
Term:vitamin A
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Definition:Any member of a group of fat-soluble retinoids produced via metabolism of provitamin A carotenoids that exhibit biological activity against vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A is involved in immune function, vision, reproduction, and cellular communication.
Synonyms:related_synonym: vitamin A vitamer;   vitamin A vitamers;   vitamins A
 xref: MetaCyc:Vitamin-A;   Wikipedia:Vitamin_A


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  CHEBI ontology 0
    role 0
      biological role 0
        biochemical role 0
          metabolite 0
            vitamin A 0
              all-trans-3,4-didehydroretinoic acid 0
              all-trans-3,4-didehydroretinol + 0
              all-trans-retinal + 0
              all-trans-retinoic acid + 0
              all-trans-retinol + 0
              all-trans-retinyl ester + 0
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  CHEBI ontology 0
    subatomic particle 0
      composite particle 0
        hadron 0
          baryon 0
            nucleon 0
              atomic nucleus 0
                atom 0
                  main group element atom 0
                    main group molecular entity 0
                      s-block molecular entity 0
                        hydrogen molecular entity 0
                          hydrides 0
                            organic hydride 0
                              organic fundamental parent 0
                                hydrocarbon 0
                                  terpene 0
                                    diterpene 0
                                      diterpenoid 0
                                        retinoid 0
                                          vitamin A 0
                                            all-trans-3,4-didehydroretinoic acid 0
                                            all-trans-3,4-didehydroretinol + 0
                                            all-trans-retinal + 0
                                            all-trans-retinoic acid + 0
                                            all-trans-retinol + 0
                                            all-trans-retinyl ester + 0
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