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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Estradiol Congeners > Estradiol > 2-Methoxyestradiol
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Preferred term

2-Methoxyestradiol  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • (17 beta)-2-methoxyestra-1,3,5(10)-triene-3,17-diol
  • 2 Methoxyoestradiol
  • 2-Methoxyoestradiol

Scope note

  • A metabolite of estradiol that lacks estrogenic activity and inhibits TUBULIN polymerization. It has antineoplastic properties, including inhibition of angiogenesis and induction of APOPTOSIS.

History note

  • 2019 (1980)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000077584

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