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Descriptor English: Secondary Metabolism
Descriptor Spanish: Metabolismo Secundario
Descriptor metabolismo secundario
Scope note: Proceso fisioquímico que se produce en una amplia variedad de organismos que, a diferencia del METABOLISMO BASAL, no es esencial o requerido para una supervivencia a corto plazo sino para un bienestar general a largo plazo del organismo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Metabolismo Secundário
Descriptor French: Métabolisme secondaire
Entry term(s): Metabolism, Secondary
Metabolisms, Secondary
Secondary Metabolisms
Tree number(s): G03.493.875
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D064210
Scope note: A physiochemical process which occurs in a wide range of organisms which unlike BASAL METABOLISM is not required for or essential to short-term survivability but to long-term general well-being of the organism.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2014
History Note: 2014
Related: Basal Metabolism MeSH
Phytochemicals MeSH
DeCS ID: 55390
Unique ID: D064210
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Date Established: 2014/01/01
Date of Entry: 2013/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/07/01
Secondary Metabolism - Preferred
Concept UI M0580275
Scope note A physiochemical process which occurs in a wide range of organisms which unlike BASAL METABOLISM is not required for or essential to short-term survivability but to long-term general well-being of the organism.
Preferred term Secondary Metabolism
Entry term(s) Metabolism, Secondary
Metabolisms, Secondary
Secondary Metabolisms



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