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CHEBI:53662 - biguanides
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ChEBI Name
biguanides
ChEBI ID
CHEBI:53662
Definition
A class of oral hypoglycemic drugs used for diabetes mellitus or prediabetes treatment. They have a structure based on the 2-carbamimidoylguanidine skeleton.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs
CHEBI:35529
Roles Classification
Application
(s):
hypoglycemic agent
A drug which lowers the blood glucose level.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
has role
hypoglycemic agent (
CHEBI:35526
)
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
is a
guanidines (
CHEBI:24436
)
Incoming
alexidine (
CHEBI:53661
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
buformin (
CHEBI:3209
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
chlorhexidine (
CHEBI:3614
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
m-Chlorophenylbiguanide (
CHEBI:32347
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
N-(diaminomethylidene)-4-morpholinecarboximidamide (
CHEBI:94665
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
phenformin (
CHEBI:8064
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
proguanil (
CHEBI:8455
)
is a
biguanides (
CHEBI:53662
)
Last Modified
24 October 2014