Compound Type
Animal Derived
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A compound extracted from animal tissue rather than synthesised chemically or produced recombinantly. Most of the older peptide preparations began this way, insulin from pig pancreas and thymus extracts from calves among them, and a few still are made so. This site applies the type when extraction from animal material is what the product fundamentally is, rather than an incidental step in its history.
Why it matters here
Extracted material carries whatever came with it, so these are the records where the source species and the purity documentation genuinely matter, and where a batch is a biological sample rather than the output of a synthesis.
What it is not
Animal-derived is a fact about sourcing, not a claim that something is natural or safer; extraction historically carried contamination risks that synthesis does not. This site also records molecular origin separately from type, and Animal Derived exists as a value in both domains, so a synthesised copy of a hormone first found in an animal is Synthetic in origin and does not belong to this type.
Also called
- animal derived
- bovine
- porcine
- marine derived
Bovine and porcine name the source species, cattle and pig, and appear on many older product labels. Marine derived generally means fish or shellfish material.
Compounds carrying this term
None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.