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FOODON
FoodOn (FOODON)
OWL
Last submission date April 11, 2024
ID http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33234
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33234
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vitamin E

Definitions

Any member of a group of fat-soluble chromanols that exhibit biological activity against vitamin E deficiency. The vitamers in this class consists of a chroman-6-ol core which is substituted at position 2 by a methyl group and (also at position 2) either a saturated or a triply-unsaturated hydrocarbon chain consisting of three isoprenoid units. The major function of vitamin E is to act as a natural antioxidant by scavenging free radicals and molecular oxygen.

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