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Definition of Pregnenolone
1. Noun. (steroid hormone) A steroid prohormone involved in the steroidogenesis of progesterone, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pregnenolone
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pregnenolone
Literary usage of Pregnenolone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Specifically labelled pregnenolone (15 mCi/mmole) was kindly prepared and ...
Unlabelled pregnenolone (Sigma) was used to reduce the specific activity of ..."
2. Anabolic Steroid Abuse by Geraline C. Lin (1996)
"mitochondria to pregnenolone, which is in turn transported to the endoplas- mic
reticulum ... pregnenolone is converted to testosterone in three steps: 17a ..."
3. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"... than to pregnenolone). Nevertheless, 1 completed just about a month ...
from pregnenolone so that the former substance would be available in quantity, ..."
4. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"A pregnenolone test system is a device intended to measure pregnenolone (a
precursor in the biosynthesis of the adrenal hormone ..."
5. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"pregnan-20-one (pregnenolone) enhances alcohol-induced depression in motor
activity (Melchior and Allen 1992). Acute administration of alcohol elicits ..."
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