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Concept information
Preferred term
alkaloids
Type
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Chemical
Definition
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Organic nitrogenous bases. Many alkaloids of medical importance occur in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and some have been synthesized.
Source: Medical Subject Headings
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- arecoline
- betalains
- capsaicinoids
- cytisine
- diterpenoid alkaloids
- imidazole alkaloids
- indole alkaloids
- indolizidine alkaloids
- isoquinoline alkaloids
- Lycopodium alkaloids
- lycorine
- muscarine
- opium alkaloids
- piperidine alkaloids
- pyridine alkaloids
- pyrrolidine alkaloids
- pyrrolizidine alkaloids
- quinoline alkaloids
- quinolizidine alkaloids
- sinapine
- steroid alkaloids
- tropane alkaloids
- xanthine alkaloids
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/6445
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