"Biotransformation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The chemical alteration of an exogenous substance by or in a biological system. The alteration may inactivate the compound or it may result in the production of an active metabolite of an inactive parent compound. The alterations may be divided into METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE I and METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE II.
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D001711
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G03.171 G03.787.225 G07.690.725.225
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biotransformation" by people in Profiles.
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Alcohol consumption and the risk of breast cancer. Salud Publica Mex. 2011 Sep-Oct; 53(5):440-7.
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Ancillary risk information and pharmacogenetic tests: social and policy implications. Pharmacogenomics J. 2008 Apr; 8(2):85-9.
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Pharmacokinetics, covalent binding and subcellular distribution of [3H]doxorubicin after intravenous administration in the mouse. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1981 Jan; 216(1):55-61.
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Intestinal absorption of polymeric derivatives of the food dyes sunset yellow and tartrazine in rats. Xenobiotica. 1977 Dec; 7(12):765-74.