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.
Stars 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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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