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Lipids > Membrane Lipids > Sterols > Cholecalciferol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Cholestanes > Sterols > Cholecalciferol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Cholestanes > Cholestenes > Cholecalciferol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Secosteroids > Vitamin D > Cholecalciferol

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Cholecalciferol  

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Entry terms

  • (3 beta,5Z,7E)-9,10-Secocholesta-5,7,10(19)-trien-3-ol
  • Calciol
  • Vitamin D 3
  • Vitamin D3

Note

  • deficiency: coordinate CHOLECALCIFEROL /defic (IM) with VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY (IM)

Scope note

  • Derivative of 7-dehydroxycholesterol formed by ULTRAVIOLET RAYS breaking of the C9-C10 bond. It differs from ERGOCALCIFEROL in having a single bond between C22 and C23 and lacking a methyl group at C24.

History note

  • 94, 67-74; was CHOLECALCIFEROLS 1975-93, was CHOLECALCIFEROL 1967-74, was VITAMIN D 3 1963-66

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002762

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