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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 > Testosterone Congeners > Dehydroepiandrosterone
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Androstanes > Androstenes > Androstenols > Dehydroepiandrosterone
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Adrenal Cortex Hormones > 17-Ketosteroids > Dehydroepiandrosterone
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Ketosteroids > 17-Ketosteroids > Dehydroepiandrosterone

Preferred term

Dehydroepiandrosterone  

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Entry terms

  • 5 Androsten 3 beta hydroxy 17 one
  • 5-Androsten-3-beta-hydroxy-17-one
  • Androstenolone
  • Dehydroisoandrosterone
  • DHEA
  • Prasterone

Scope note

  • A major C19 steroid produced by the ADRENAL CORTEX. It is also produced in small quantities in the TESTIS and the OVARY. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) can be converted to TESTOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; and ESTRONE. Most of DHEA is sulfated (DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE) before secretion.

History note

  • 2004, 1963-1992

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003687

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