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Descriptor English: Ambaina
Descriptor Spanish: Ambaína
Descriptor ambaina
Scope note: La ambaína es una glucosa que cristaliza en pequeñas agujas prismáticas y transparentes, con olor ligeramente picante y acre. Es soluble en alcohol a temperatura entre 40 y 36 grados C, y en pequeñas proporciones a temperaturas frías. Es poco soluble en agua e insoluble en éter sulfúrico y cloroformo. Puede obtenerse a partir del extracto alcohólico de las cortezas frescas de ambaína blanca (Cecropia hololeuca), perteneciente a la familia Cecropiaceae. (http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/95s0316/rpt0020_01.pdf)
Descriptor Portuguese: Ambaína
Descriptor French: Ambaina
Entry term(s): Ambaine
Tree number(s): HP4.018.127.256
Scope note: Ambaina is a glucose that crystalizes into small prismatic and transparent needles, with a slightly pungent and acidic flavour; it is soluble in alcohol: 40 degrees C and 36 degrees C at warm, and in small proportions at cold temperature; little soluble in water and insoluble in sulphuric ether and chloroform. It can be obtained from the alcoholic extract of the white ambaina's fresh peels (Cecropia hololeuca), which belongs to the Cecropiaceae family. (http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/95s0316/rpt0020_01.pdf)
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CL classification
HI history
IP isolation & purification
PD pharmacology
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
DeCS ID: 36477
Unique ID: DDCS036477
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Ambaina - Preferred
Concept UI FD00061249
Scope note Ambaina is a glucose that crystalizes into small prismatic and transparent needles, with a slightly pungent and acidic flavour; it is soluble in alcohol: 40 degrees C and 36 degrees C at warm, and in small proportions at cold temperature; little soluble in water and insoluble in sulphuric ether and chloroform. It can be obtained from the alcoholic extract of the white ambaina's fresh peels (Cecropia hololeuca), which belongs to the Cecropiaceae family. (http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/95s0316/rpt0020_01.pdf)
Preferred term Ambaina
Entry term(s) Ambaine



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