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Furanocoumarin
A class of organic phytochemicals that consists of a furan ring fused with coumarin. Furanocoumarins are produced by plants as defensive toxins and, when ingested by humans, they can affect the metabolism of drugs by cytochrome P450 isoform CYP3A4. (NCI Thesaurus)
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