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... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Estranes > Estrenes > Equilin
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Estradiol Congeners > Equilin
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Adrenal Cortex Hormones > 17-Ketosteroids > Equilin
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Ketosteroids > 17-Ketosteroids > Equilin

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Equilin  

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Note

  • do not confuse with EQUILENIN

Scope note

  • An estrogenic steroid produced by HORSES. It has a total of four double bonds in the A- and B-ring. High concentration of euilin is found in the URINE of pregnant mares.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under 17-KETOSTEROIDS 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004857

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