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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 (role)
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Definition:A biochemical role played by any micronutrient that is an organic compound. Vitamins are present in foods in small amounts and are essential to normal metabolism and biochemical functions, usually as coenzymes. The term 'vitamines' (from vita + amines) was coined in 1912 by Casimir Funk, who believed that these compounds were amines.
Synonyms:related_synonym: vitamin;   vitamina;   vitaminas;   vitamine;   vitamines;   vitamins;   vitaminum
 alt_id: CHEBI:10004;   CHEBI:27305
 xref: Wikipedia:Vitamin



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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        role 19844
          biological role 19842
            biochemical role 19549
              vitamin (role) 14026
                fat-soluble vitamin (role) + 11250
                water-soluble vitamin (role) + 9712
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      CHEBI ontology 19874
        role 19844
          biological role 19842
            physiological role 19841
              food component 19841
                nutrient 19831
                  micronutrient 19086
                    vitamin (role) 14026
                      fat-soluble vitamin (role) + 11250
                      water-soluble vitamin (role) + 9712
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