oxidation-reduction

Preferred Label : oxidation-reduction;

MeSH definition : A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471).;

MeSH synonym : redox; oxidation reduction;

MeSH annotation : IM for general only; NIM with no qualif with specific drug IM;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox;

Details

Origin ID

D010084;

UMLS CUI

C0030012;

Allowable qualifiers
- drug effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- radiation effects [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Oxidation-Reduction [DeCS]
- oxidation-reduction process [GO term]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Oxidation-reduction, function (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Oxidation/Reduction [NCIt concept]
- oxidation-reduction [SNOMED Notion]
Indexing information
- PRDX2 protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- dimethyldioxirane [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- oxidized low density lipoprotein [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- oxidized very low density lipoprotein [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
Record concept(s)
- Oxidation-Reduction [MeSH concept]
See also
- Oxidation [DeCS]
- antioxidants [MeSH Descriptor]
- oxidants [MeSH Descriptor]
- reducing agents [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Molecular Function [UMLS semantic type]

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