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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 > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > Pregnanetriol
... > 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 > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > Pregnanetriol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenediones > Progesterone > Hydroxyprogesterones > 17-alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone > Pregnanetriol

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Pregnanetriol  

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Entry terms

  • 5-beta-Pregnane-3,17,20-triol
  • 5beta-Pregnane-3alpha,17alpha,20alpha-triol

Scope note

  • A metabolite of 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE, normally produced in small quantities by the GONADS and the ADRENAL GLANDS, found in URINE. An elevated urinary pregnanetriol is associated with CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA with a deficiency of STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE.

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  • 66(64)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011279

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