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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:prohormone
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Accession:CHEBI:71212 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any intra-glandular substance that acts as a precursor of a hormone, usually having minimal hormonal effect itself. Prohormones generally help in amplifying the effect of existing hormones.
Synonyms:related_synonym: prohormones
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    role 0
      biological role 0
        prohormone 0
          7-ketodehydroepiandrosterone 0
          bolandiol + 0
          doxercalciferol 0
          ecdysone + 0
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