Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Testosterone Congeners > Dehydroepiandrosterone > Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Androstanes > Androstenes > Androstenols > Dehydroepiandrosterone > Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Adrenal Cortex Hormones > 17-Ketosteroids > Dehydroepiandrosterone > Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Ketosteroids > 17-Ketosteroids > Dehydroepiandrosterone > Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate

Preferred term

Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Dehydroisoandrosterone Sulfate
  • DHA Sulfate
  • DHEA Sulfate
  • Prasterone Sulfate
  • Sulfate, Dehydroisoandrosterone
  • Sulfate, DHA
  • Sulfate, DHEA
  • Sulfate, Prasterone

Scope note

  • The circulating form of a major C19 steroid produced primarily by the ADRENAL CORTEX. DHEA sulfate serves as a precursor for TESTOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; and ESTRONE.

History note

  • 97; was DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE (NM) 1978-96

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019314

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/10/96, last modified 5/28/16