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Biotransformation

"Biotransformation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biotransformation" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Biotransformation" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 88 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2006
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.