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- Diosgenin, a phytosteroid sapogenin, is the product of hydrolysis by acids, strong bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea...
- nipponica, are a source for the extraction of diosgenin, a sapogenin steroid. The extracted diosgenin is used for the commercial synthesis of cortisone...
- sapogenin, diosgenin. It is a source of diosgenin, which is used to prepare synthetic hormones such as progesterone and cortisone. Diosgenin extracted...
- yellow yam, colic root, and rheumatism root. Dioscorea villosa contains diosgenin, which despite claims is not a phytoestrogen and does not interact with...
- Mexico. It contains a steroid called diosgenin that is taken from the plant and is converted into progesterone. Diosgenin and progesterone are also found in...
- cheaper and more convenient starting material, diosgenin from wild Mexican yams. His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now...
- impurities by Dr. Chittiboyina's group suggested that it is synthesized from diosgenin. It acts as a partial agonist at androgen receptors and has been sold...
- sapogenin called diosgenin which had previously been found in ****anese yams (Dioscorea tokoro). Marker showed that both sarsasapogenin and diosgenin could be...
- The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...
- steroids that are found in plants. Examples include digoxin, digitoxin, diosgenin, and guggulsterone, as well as phytosterols like β-sitosterol. Steroid...