| Term: | blood plasma D3 vitamins |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | blood plasma |
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| Definition: | Portion of organism substance that is the liquid matrix of blood. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005654] |
| Name: | D3 vitamins |
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| Synonyms: | D3 vitamin, vitamin D3s |
| Definition: | A vitamin D that is calciol or its hydroxylated metabolites calcidiol and calcitriol. Calciol (also known as vitamin D3) acts as a hormone precursor, being hydroxylated in the liver to calcidiol (25-hydroxyvitamin D3), which is then further hydroxylated in the kidney to give calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3), the active hormone. |
| Ontology: | ChEBI [CHEBI:73558] ( EBI ) |