Preferred Label : carotenoids;
IUPAC definition : tetraterpenoids (C sub 40 /sub ), formally derived from the acyclic parent, Ψ,Ψ-carotene
I by hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, cyclization, oxidation, or combination of these
processes. This class includes carotenes, xanthophylls and certain compounds that
arise from rearrangement of the skeleton of I or by loss of part of this structure.
retinoids are excluded.;
Origin ID : C00858;
UMLS CUI : C0007271;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- carotenoid [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
See also
Semantic type(s)
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
tetraterpenoids (C sub 40 /sub ), formally derived from the acyclic parent, Ψ,Ψ-carotene
I by hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, cyclization, oxidation, or combination of these
processes. This class includes carotenes, xanthophylls and certain compounds that
arise from rearrangement of the skeleton of I or by loss of part of this structure.
retinoids are excluded.