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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 > 5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenediones > Progesterone > 5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
... > 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 > 5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnanediones > 5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone

Preferred term

5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 3,20 Allopregnanedione
  • 3,20-Allopregnanedione
  • 3,20-Allopregnanedione, (5alpha)-Isomer
  • 5alpha DHP
  • 5alpha-DHP
  • 5 alpha-Dihydroprogesterone
  • 5 alpha Pregnane 3,20 dione
  • 5 alpha-Pregnane-3,20-dione
  • 5-alpha-Pregnane-3,20-dione
  • 5alpha Pregnane 3,20 dione
  • 5alpha-Pregnane-3,20-dione
  • 5 alpha Pregnanedione
  • 5-alpha-Pregnanedione

Scope note

  • A biologically active 5-alpha-reduced metabolite of plasma PROGESTERONE. It is the immediate precursor of 5-alpha-pregnan-3-alpha-ol-20-one (ALLOPREGNANOLONE), a neuroactive steroid that binds with GABA(A) RECEPTOR.

History note

  • 2004; for 3,20-ALLOPREGNANEDIONE use PREGNANEDIONES (NM) 1971-2003

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D043582

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