Short Chain Fatty Acid

Preferred Label : Short Chain Fatty Acid;

NCIt synonyms : VFA; Volatile Fatty Acid; SCFA; Short-Chain Fatty Acid;

NCIt definition : A class of dietary fatty acids that have an alkyl chain length from 2 up to 5 carbon atoms.;

Alternative definition : CRCH: A class of dietary fatty acids containing 4 carbons.;

Unit used : g;

ChEBI ID : CHEBI:26666;

Details

Origin ID

C68424;

UMLS CUI

C0015691;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- fatty acids, volatile [MeSH Descriptor]
- fatty acids, volatile [MeSH concept]
- short chain fatty acids [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Short chain fatty acid (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- short chain fatty acid, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Biologically Active Substance [UMLS semantic type]
- Organic Chemical [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Short chain fatty acid (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- fatty acids, volatile [MeSH concept]
- fatty acids, volatile [MeSH Descriptor]
- short chain fatty acid, nos [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CTRP Biomarker Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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