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Organic Chemicals > Organophosphorus Compounds > Organophosphonates > Diphosphonates

Preferred term

Diphosphonates  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Bisphosphonate
  • Bisphosphonates

Scope note

  • Organic compounds which contain P-C-P bonds, where P stands for phosphonates or phosphonic acids. These compounds affect calcium metabolism. They inhibit ectopic calcification and slow down bone resorption and bone turnover. Technetium complexes of diphosphonates have been used successfully as bone scanning agents.

History note

  • 77

In other languages

  • difosfonaatit

    Finnish

  • bifosfonaatit
  • bifosfonaatti
  • bisfosfonaatit
  • bisfosfonaatti
  • difosfonaatti
  • Bisfosfonater

    Swedish

  • Difosfonater

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004164

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