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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Corpus Luteum Hormones > Progesterone > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > 17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Progesterone Congeners > Progesterone > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > 17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenediones > Progesterone > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > 17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate

Preferred term

17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 17 alpha Hydroxy Progesterone Caproate
  • 17-alpha-Hydroxy-Progesterone Caproate
  • 17 alpha Oxyprogesterone Capronate
  • 17 alpha-Oxyprogesterone Capronate
  • 17 Hydroxyprogesterone Capronate
  • 17-Hydroxyprogesterone Capronate
  • Caproate, 17-alpha-Hydroxy-Progesterone
  • Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate
  • Hydroxyprogesterone Hexanoate
  • Oxyprogesterone Caproate

Scope note

  • Hydroxyprogesterone derivative that acts as a PROGESTIN and is used to reduce the risk of recurrent MISCARRIAGE and of PREMATURE BIRTH. It is also used in combination with ESTROGEN in the management of MENSTRUATION DISORDERS.

History note

  • 2019 (1979)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000077713

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