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Descriptor English: Iron Chelating Agents
Descriptor Spanish: Quelantes del Hierro
Descriptor quelantes del hierro
Entry term(s) agentes quelantes del hierro
quelatos de hierro
Scope note: Sustancias orgánicas que forman dos o más enlaces coordinados con un ión de hierro. Una vez que ha ocurrido la coordinación, el complejo formado se conoce como quelato. El grupo porfirina que une hierro en la hemoglobina es un ejemplo de quelato metálico existente en sistemas biológicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Quelantes de Ferro
Descriptor French: Agents chélateurs du fer
Entry term(s): Agents, Iron Chelating
Chelates, Iron
Chelating Agents, Iron
Iron Chelates
Tree number(s): D27.505.519.914.500.410
D27.720.832.500.410
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007502
Scope note: Organic chemicals that form two or more coordination links with an iron ion. Once coordination has occurred, the complex formed is called a chelate. The iron-binding porphyrin group of hemoglobin is an example of a metal chelate found in biological systems.
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AN analysis
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
Public MeSH Note: 98; see IRON CHELATES 1963-97
History Note: 98(63)
Related: Siderophores MeSH
DeCS ID: 28113
Unique ID: D007502
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Date Established: 1998/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2013/07/08
Iron Chelating Agents - Preferred
Concept UI M0011721
Scope note Organic chemicals that form two or more coordination links with an iron ion. Once coordination has occurred, the complex formed is called a chelate. The iron-binding porphyrin group of hemoglobin is an example of a metal chelate found in biological systems.
Preferred term Iron Chelating Agents
Entry term(s) Agents, Iron Chelating
Chelates, Iron
Chelating Agents, Iron
Iron Chelates



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