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- of 5β-pregnane compounds. Pregnanes are steroid derivatives with carbons present at positions 1 through 21. Most biologically significant pregnane derivatives...
- virilization of the male fetus. Allopregnanolone is an endogenous inhibitory pregnane neurosteroid. It is made from pregnenolone, and is a positive allosteric...
- Lehmann JM (January 1998). "An orphan nuclear receptor activated by pregnanes defines a novel steroid signaling pathway". Cell. 92 (1): 73–82. doi:10...
- allopregnanedione): 5α-pregnane-3,20-dione – GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulator 5β-Dihydroprogesterone (5β-DHP; pregnanedione): 5β-pregnane-3,20-dione –...
- androgens. This process starts with 21-carbon (C 21) steroids, also known as pregnanes, and involves a step called "5α-reduction". Notably, this pathway does...
- derivatives. It is one of the epimers of pregnane, the other being 5α-pregnane. Derivatives of 5β-pregnane include the naturally occurring steroids...
- C19-steroids for the androstanes (mostly androgens), and C21-steroids for the pregnanes (mostly corticosteroids). The classification "17-ketosteroid" is also...
- Meclizine Nigramide J Okadaic acid PK-11195 S-07662 T-0901317 PXRTooltip Pregnane X receptor Agonists: 17α-Hydroxypregnenolone 17α-Hydroxyprogesterone Δ4-Androstenedione...
- of the human pregnane X receptor, albeit with an EC50 that is more than an order of magnitude lower than that of other endogenous pregnanes like pregnenolone...
- as an agonist ligand for the nuclear receptor farnesoid X receptor and pregnane X receptor, blocking cholesterol homeostasis. Thus cafestol can increase...