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... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Pregnanes > Pregnenes > Pregnenolone
... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Adrenal Cortex Hormones > Hydroxycorticosteroids > Pregnenolone
... > 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

Preferred term

Pregnenolone  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A 21-carbon steroid, derived from CHOLESTEROL and found in steroid hormone-producing tissues. Pregnenolone is the precursor to GONADAL STEROID HORMONES and the adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS.

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • 145-13-1 (Pregnenolone)
  • 5-Pregnen-3-beta-ol-20-one
  • 73R90F7MQ8
  • Pregn-5-en-20-one, 3-hydroxy-, (3beta)-

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In other languages

  • Prégnénolone

    French

  • 145-13-1 (Pregnenolone)
  • 3-Hydroxy-5-pregnen-20-one
  • 73R90F7MQ8
  • Pregn-5-en-20-one, 3-hydroxy-, (3beta)-

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-QNK7LHS2-T

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