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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Estrogens

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Estrogens  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Agents, Estrogenic
  • Agonists, Estrogen Receptor
  • Compounds, Estrogenic
  • Estrogen
  • Estrogenic Agents
  • Estrogenic Compounds
  • Estrogen Receptor Agonists
  • Receptor Agonists, Estrogen

Note

  • /defic: consider also HYPOGONADISM & other GONADAL DISORDERS; /antag = ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS or specifics; note entry term ESTROGEN EFFECT: use only for the estrogenic effect of a chemical substance

Scope note

  • Compounds that interact with ESTROGEN RECEPTORS in target tissues to bring about the effects similar to those of ESTRADIOL. Estrogens stimulate the female reproductive organs, and the development of secondary female SEX CHARACTERISTICS. Estrogenic chemicals include natural, synthetic, steroidal, or non-steroidal compounds.

History note

  • 1963; /therapeutic use was ESTROGENS, THERAPEUTIC 1965

In other languages

  • estrogeenit

    Finnish

  • estrogeeni
  • munasarjahormoni
  • munasarjahormonit
  • naishormoni
  • naishormonit
  • Östrogener

    Swedish

  • Östrogeneffekt
  • Östrogenföreningar

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004967

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