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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 > 20-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenediones > Progesterone > 20-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
... > 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 > 20-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone

Preferred term

20-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 20 alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
  • 20 alpha Hydroxy 4 Pregnen 3 One
  • 20 alpha-Hydroxy-4-Pregnen-3-One
  • 20-alpha-hydroxy- Pregn-4-en-3-one
  • 20alpha Hydroxypregn 4 Ene 3 One
  • 20alpha-Hydroxypregn-4-Ene-3-One
  • 20 alpha Hydroxyprogesterone
  • 20 alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone
  • 20-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone
  • Dihydroprogesterone
  • Pregn 4 en 3 one, 20 alpha hydroxy
  • Pregn-4-en-3-one, 20-alpha-hydroxy-

Scope note

  • A biologically active 20-alpha-reduced metabolite of PROGESTERONE. It is converted from progesterone to 20-alpha-hydroxypregn-4-en-3-one by the 20-ALPHA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE in the CORPUS LUTEUM and the PLACENTA.

History note

  • 2004 (1975)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004092

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