AmiGO 2: Term Details for "norepinephrine metabolic process" (GO:0042415)

Accession: GO:0042415
Name: norepinephrine metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: levarterenol metabolic process, levarterenol metabolism, noradrenaline metabolic process, noradrenaline metabolism, norepinephrine metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving norepinephrine, a hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla, and a neurotransmitter in the sympathetic peripheral nervous system and in some tracts in the central nervous system. It is also the demethylated biosynthetic precursor of epinephrine. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042415 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to norepinephrine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to norepinephrine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for norepinephrine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
norepinephrine metabolic process	is_a	catecholamine metabolic process (GO:0006584)
norepinephrine metabolic process	RO:0004007	(R)-noradrenaline(1+) (CHEBI:72587)

subject	relation	object
norepinephrine biosynthetic process (GO:0042421)	is_a	norepinephrine metabolic process
norepinephrine catabolic process (GO:0042422)	is_a	norepinephrine metabolic process

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