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... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenolone > 17-alpha-Hydroxypregnenolone
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Progesterone Congeners > Pregnenolone > 17-alpha-Hydroxypregnenolone

Preferred term

17-alpha-Hydroxypregnenolone  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • 17 alpha-Hydroxypregnenolone
  • 17alpha Hydroxypregnenolone
  • 17alpha-Hydroxypregnenolone
  • 17 Hydroxypregnenolone
  • 17-Hydroxypregnenolone
  • 17-Hydroxypregnenolone, (3beta,17alpha)-Isomer
  • Hydroxypregnenolone

Scope note

  • A 21-carbon steroid that is converted from PREGNENOLONE by STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE. It is an intermediate in the delta-5 pathway of biosynthesis of GONADAL STEROID HORMONES and the adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS.

History note

  • 2004 (1964); for 17-HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE use HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE (NM) 1981-2003

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006907

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