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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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25 hydroxyvitamin D 3

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The major circulating metabolite of vitamin D3. It is vitamin D3 produced in the liver and is the best indicator of the body's vitamin D stores. It is effective in the treatment of rickets and ...

9,10-Secoergosta-5,7,10(19),22-tetraene-3,25-diol. Biologically active metabolite of vitamin D2 which is more active in curing rickets than its parent. The compound is believed to attach to the same ...

Calcifediol

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The major circulating metabolite of vitamin D3. It is vitamin D3 produced in the liver and is the best indicator of the body's vitamin D stores. It is effective in the treatment of rickets and ...

Calcidiol

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The major circulating metabolite of vitamin D3. It is vitamin D3 produced in the liver and is the best indicator of the body's vitamin D stores. It is effective in the treatment of rickets and ...

2-ring heterocyclic compounds

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A class of organic compounds containing two ring structures, one of which is made up of more than one kind of atom, usually carbon plus another atom. The heterocycle may be either aromatic or ...

2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone

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A synthetic naphthoquinone without the isoprenoid side chain and biological activity, but can be converted to active vitamin K2, menaquinone, after alkylation in vivo.

Vitamin K3

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A synthetic naphthoquinone without the isoprenoid side chain and biological activity, but can be converted to active vitamin K2, menaquinone, after alkylation in vivo.