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Organic Chemicals > Nitriles > Amygdalin
Carbohydrates > Glycosides > Glucosides > Amygdalin

Preferred term

Amygdalin  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Amygdaloside
  • Mandelonitrile beta Gentiobioside
  • Mandelonitrile-beta-Gentiobioside
  • Neoamygdalin
  • Vitamin B17

Note

  • /biosyn permitted if by plant

Scope note

  • A cyanogenic glycoside found in the seeds of Rosaceae.

History note

  • 79(76); was see under NITRILES 1976-78; LAETRILE was see AMYGDALIN 1979-95, see under NITRILES 1975-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000678

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