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Descriptor English: Cimicifuga
Descriptor Spanish: Cimicifuga
Descriptor Cimicifuga
Entry term(s) Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosas
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cimicifuga racemosas
Cimicifugas
Cimifuga
Cimifuga racemosa
Macrotys racemosa
cohosh negro
Scope note: Género de plantas de la familia RANUNCULACEAE que contiene saponinas triterpenoides. Se emplea la remifemin de C. racemosa para suprimir la HORMONA LUTEINIZANTE. Algunos autores la han reclasificado a ACTAEA. El nombre común de snakeroot negra se emplea también con ASARUM y SANICULA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cimicifuga
Descriptor French: Cimicifuga
Entry term(s): Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosas
Black Bugbane
Black Bugbanes
Black Cohosh
Black Cohoshs
Bugbane, Black
Bugbanes, Black
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cimicifuga racemosas
Cimicifugas
Cohosh, Black
Cohoshs, Black
racemosa, Cimicifuga
racemosas, Actaea
Tree number(s): B01.875.800.575.912.250.836.750.182
HP4.018.189.545
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D031885
Scope note: A plant genus of the family RANUNCULACEAE that contains triterpenoid saponins. Remifemin from C. racemosa is used to suppress LUTEINIZING HORMONE. It is reclassified by some to ACTAEA. The common name of black snakeroot is also used with ASARUM and SANICULA.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PO poisoning
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
TO toxicity
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2003
History Note: 2003
DeCS ID: 37060
Unique ID: D031885
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Date Established: 2003/01/01
Date of Entry: 2002/07/02
Revision Date: 2018/07/02
Cimicifuga - Preferred
Concept UI M0398963
Scope note A plant genus of the family RANUNCULACEAE that contains triterpenoid saponins. Remifemin from C. racemosa is used to suppress LUTEINIZING HORMONE. It is reclassified by some to ACTAEA. The common name of black snakeroot is also used with ASARUM and SANICULA.
Preferred term Cimicifuga
Entry term(s) Cimicifugas
Cimicifuga racemosa - Narrower
Concept UI M0398964
Preferred term Cimicifuga racemosa
Entry term(s) Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosas
Black Bugbane
Black Bugbanes
Black Cohosh
Black Cohoshs
Bugbane, Black
Bugbanes, Black
Cimicifuga racemosas
Cohosh, Black
Cohoshs, Black
racemosa, Cimicifuga
racemosas, Actaea



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