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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Gonadal Hormones > Gonadal Steroid Hormones > Estradiol Congeners

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Estradiol Congeners  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Congener, Estradiol
  • Estradiol Congener

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; do not confuse with ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED (USP)

Scope note

  • Steroidal compounds related to ESTRADIOL, the major mammalian female sex hormone. Estradiol congeners include important estradiol precursors in the biosynthetic pathways, metabolites, derivatives, and synthetic steroids with estrogenic activities.

History note

  • 2004

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D045166

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