Term Information

Accession
CHEBI:24621
Name
hormone
Ontology
Synonyms
endocrine, hormones
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Originally referring to an endogenous compound that is formed in specialized organ or group of cells and carried to another organ or group of cells, in the same organism, upon which it has a specific regulatory function, the term is now commonly used to include non-endogenous, semi-synthetic and fully synthetic analogues of such compounds. [source: unknown]
Comment
None
Subset
None
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Parents of hormone (CHEBI:24621)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
hormone [is_a relation] is_a  molecular messenger (CHEBI:33280)
hormone [is_a relation] is_a  agonist (CHEBI:48705)
Children of hormone (CHEBI:24621)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
growth hormone (CHEBI:37845) [is_a relation] is_a  hormone
plant hormone (CHEBI:37848) [is_a relation] is_a  hormone
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