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Descriptor English: Cinchona
Descriptor Spanish: Cinchona
Descriptor Cinchona
Entry term(s) Quina
Scope note: Género de árboles rubiáceos de Sudamérica de cuya corteza se extraen ALCALOIDES DE CINCHONA tóxicos, QUINIDINA, chinconina, cinchonidina y otros, productos que se emplean en el tratamiento de la MALARIA y ARRITMIAS CARDÍACAS
Descriptor Portuguese: Cinchona
Descriptor French: Cinchona
Entry term(s): Cinchona officinalis
Quinquina
Écorce de Quinquina
Écorce du Pérou
Tree number(s): B01.875.800.575.912.250.456.937.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002929
Scope note: A genus of rubiaceous South American trees that yields the toxic CINCHONA ALKALOIDS from their bark; QUININE; QUINIDINE; chinconine, cinchonidine and others are used to treat MALARIA and CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS.
Annotation: plant only: alkaloids = CINCHONA ALKALOIDS
Allowable Qualifiers: AE effets indésirables
AH anatomie et histologie
CH composition chimique
CL classification
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
GE génétique
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PH physiologie
PO intoxication
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
TO toxicité
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie
Related: Alcaloïdes de Cinchona MeSH
China boliviana DeCS
China officinalis DeCS
DeCS ID: 2955
Unique ID: D002929
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/07/11
Cinchona - Preferred
Concept UI M0004486
Preferred term Cinchona
Entry term(s) Cinchona officinalis
Quinquina
Écorce de Quinquina - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0480368
Preferred term Écorce de Quinquina
Entry term(s) Écorce du Pérou



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