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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 C
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Accession:CHEBI:176783 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any member of a group of vitamers that belong to the chemical structural class called butenolides that exhibit biological activity against vitamin C deficiency in animals. The vitamers include L-ascorbic acid and its salt, ionized and oxidized forms.
Synonyms:related_synonym: vitamin C vitamer;   vitamin C vitamers;   vitamina C;   vitamine C;   vitaminum C
 alt_id: CHEBI:21241
 xref: PMCID:PMC8088531;   PMID:21885436;   PMID:33916257;   PMID:34064549;   Wikipedia:Vitamin_C


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  CHEBI ontology 0
    role 0
      biological role 0
        biochemical role 0
          vitamin (role) 0
            water-soluble vitamin (role) 0
              vitamin C 0
                L-ascorbate + 0
                L-ascorbic acid + 0
                L-dehydroascorbic acid + 0
                L-dehydroascorbic acid hydrate 0
                sodium ascorbate 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
                    p-block element atom 0
                      carbon group element atom 0
                        carbon atom 0
                          organic molecular entity 0
                            heteroorganic entity 0
                              organochalcogen compound 0
                                organooxygen compound 0
                                  ester 0
                                    carboxylic ester 0
                                      lactone 0
                                        gamma-lactone 0
                                          butenolide 0
                                            vitamin C 0
                                              L-ascorbate + 0
                                              L-ascorbic acid + 0
                                              L-dehydroascorbic acid + 0
                                              L-dehydroascorbic acid hydrate 0
                                              sodium ascorbate 0
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