Biotransformation of drospirenone, a contraceptive drug, with Cunninghamella elegans.

abstract：:Deltonin is a steroidal saponin which could suppress tumor growth through suppressing angiogenesis, but the mechanisms have not been directly elucidated yet. In the present study, we showed that deltonin inhibited the proliferation of primary cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in vitro; notably, ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Tong Q,Zhao Q,Qing Y,Hu X,Jiang L,Wu X

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immature hypophysectomized rats were injected with PMS; some groups received hCG 48h later. The C17,20-lyase activity in the granulosa cells removed from the large preovulatory follicles was estimated by the amount of labelled acetic acid produced from 21 (14C) progesterone or 17-hydroxyprogesterone. 17 alpha-hydroxyl...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Johnson DC,Griswold T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through its collaboration with the ETH in Zurich (Ruzicka's group) and later on with the University of Basel (Reichstein's group). Ciba became involved very early in steroid chemistry. The main task of the chemists consisted at that time of the synthesis of natural hormones and their derivatives. Cholesterol served fo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Heusler K,Kalvoda J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high concentrations of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and pregnenolone sulfate in the mammalian brain, despite the blood-brain barrier's impermeability to these compounds, and the apparent independence of these concentrations from those in plasma prompted us to investigate whether enzymatic sulfation of dehydroepi...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Rajkowski KM,Robel P,Baulieu EE

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Counterfeiting and adulteration of pharmaceuticals is a prevalent problem worldwide and represents a major health risk to the population, with anabolic steroids being one of the main classes of drugs consumed and obtained from dubious sources. In this work, we propose the use of the 1H NMR technique to evaluate formul...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Ribeiro MVM,Boralle N,Felippe LG,Pezza HR,Pezza L

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of a C26 bile alcohol (I, 24-nor-5beta-cho-lestane-3alpha, 7alpha,25-triol) was studied in the isolated perfused rabbit liver. The new bile alcohol and bile acid metabolites secreted into the bile were isolated and identified by a combination of TLC, GLC and GLC-MS. The following bile alcohols were foun...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Cohen BI,Kuramoto T,Rothschild MA,Graham R,Mosbach EH

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural transformation of the steroidal lactone, oxandrolone (1), by suspended-cell cultures of the plant pathogen fungus Rhizopus stolonifer, resulted in the production of three new metabolites. These metabolites were identified as 11alpha-hydroxyoxandrolone (2), 6alpha-hydroxyoxandrolone (3) and 9alpha-hydroxyoxa...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Choudhary MI,Mohammad MY,Musharraf SG,Parvez M,Al-Aboudi A,Atta-ur-Rahman

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel C6-piperazine substituted purine nucleoside analogues (2-9) bearing a modified pyranose-like D ring of the 4-azasteroid moiety were efficiently synthesized through nucleophilic substitution at C6 position of the steroid-nucleoside precursors (1) with versatile piperazines. All newly-synthesized compounds were ev...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Huang LH,Xu HD,Yang ZY,Zheng YF,Liu HM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new sterols, (24E)-24-n-propylidenecholesterol and 24 epsilon-n-propylcholesterol, were isolated from a cultured marine Chrysophyte. Since most of the steroids found in marine invertebrates are unchanged or modified sterols of algal or symbiotic origin, the discovery of these two unusual sterols in a unicellular a...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Rohmer M,Kokke WC,Fenical W,Djerassi C

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mechanistic study on the nucleophilic substitution of a strictly geometric 21-bromo-3alpha-hydroxyl-3beta-methoxymethyl-5alpha-pregnan-20-one was described. Reaction of the alpha-bromoketone with excess lithium imidazole followed by the addition of extra bases including n-butyllithium, methyllithium, lithium piperid...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Chen CY,Wong FF,Lee YH,Chou SY,Huang JJ,Yeh MY

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid hormones are involved in the regulation of a variety of processes like embryonic development, sex differentiation, metabolism, immune responses, circadian rhythms, stress response, and reproduction in vertebrates. Teleost fishes and humans show a remarkable conservation in many developmental and physiological ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Tokarz J,Möller G,Hrabě de Angelis M,Adamski J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer mortality in male and female patients in the US. The etiology of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is not fully defined, but new data suggest that estrogens and growth factors promote tumor progression. In this work, we confirm that estrogen receptors (ER), both ERalpha ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Márquez-Garbán DC,Chen HW,Fishbein MC,Goodglick L,Pietras RJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile acid conjugates are found in human breast cyst fluid in average concentrations about 50-fold greater than those in blood. Because epidemiologic studies have linked colon and breast cancer and aberrant bile acid profiles are associated with colon cancer risk, we decided to study the influence of bile acid conjugat...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Raju U,Katz J,Levitz M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal function and aging have been the object of intense interest in recent years. In this study we analyzed morning (08:00 h) serum cortisol concentrations from a sample of Chinese subjects aged from 31 to 110 years. These levels differed according to age, health status and sex, although the sex difference was conf...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Zhao ZY,Lu FH,Xie Y,Fu YR,Bogdan A,Touitou Y

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that 1α,25 dihydroxy-vitamin D(3) (1α,25(OH)(2)D(3)) has antiproliferative effects on the growth of endothelial cells transformed by the viral G protein-coupled receptor associated to Kaposi sarcoma (vGPCR). In this work, we have investigated whether 1α,25(OH)(2)D(3) exerts its growth i...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Gonzalez-Pardo V,D'Elia N,Verstuyf A,Boland R,Russo de Boland A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant lignans are currently being widely studied for their potential benefits for human health as their consumption has been correlated with lower risks for developing chronic diseases, such as breast cancer and coronary heart disease. However, studies of some classes of lignans, in particular the furofurans, are hamp...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Haajanen K,Botting NP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the metabolism of deoxycorticosterone in A6 cells, a continuous cell line derived from the kidney of Xenopus laevis. A6 cells at confluence were incubated with serum-free culture media containing 2.5 microM [3H] deoxycorticosterone. When radioactive compounds in incubation media were separated by ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Matsuzaki K,Arai T,Miyazaki T,Yasuda K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:20-Hydroxyecdysterone - (2β,3β,5β,22R)-2,3,14,20,22,25-hexahydroxycholest-7-en-6-one was isolated in satisfactory yield using ethanol extraction from the aerial part of Silene wolgensis (Hornem.) Otth; sometimes Silene wolgensis (Willd.) Bess. ex Spreng. The complexation of the phytoecdysteroid with β-cyclodextrin was...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Temirgaziyev BS,Kučáková K,Baizhigit YA,Jurášek M,Džubák P,Hajdúch M,Dolenský B,Drašar PB,Tuleuov BI,Adekenov SM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study represents a continuing effort to find a new biomarker for the diagnosis and management of prostatic cancer. Polyclonal antibodies were prepared to a peptide (CAKP) representing amino acids 28 to 43 of the 5 alpha-reductase type 2 isozyme. Using immunoaffinity-purified antibodies, the sera of 62 patients we...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Lombardo ME,Hudson PB

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3beta-Hydroxy sterols occurring at a concentration of at least 0.001% of the sterol mixtures of Pseudoplexaura porosa and Plexaura homomalla have been fractionated using a series of refined techniques and subsequently analyzed using combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in the development of a procedur...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Popov S,Carlson RM,Wegmann A,Djerassi C

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly active inhibitor of the binding of estrone and estradiol-17beta to rat alpha-fetoprotein is demonstrated for the first time in embryo, immature and adult rat sera as well as in fetal and adult human sera. The competitive character and the narrow specificity of this inhibition effect is shown. The major compou...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Benassayag C,Vallette G,Delorme J,Savu L,Nunez EA,Jayle MF

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentrations of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), 5-androstene-3beta,17beta-diol (AED), and 17beta-estradiol (E2) in dairy cows and heifers and AED binding to uterine cytosolic estrogen receptor (ER) were studied. Plasma samples were collected from the subcutaneous abdominal (SA) and jugular (J) veins of heifers...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Gabai G,Marinelli L,Simontacchi C,Bono GG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key to the production of biologically active steroids is the enzyme 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-isomerase. Some controversy has arisen concerning the subcellular distribution of this enzyme within steroidogenic cells. The distribution of 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-isomerase was assessed in subcellular...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Perry JE,Ishii-Ohba H,Stalvey JR

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of dehydro-oogoniol (3 beta,11 alpha,15 beta,29-tetrahydroxystigmasta-5,24(28)(E)-dien-7-one), a female-activating hormone of the water mold Achlya, has been confirmed by synthesis. The starting material was progesterone, which was converted to the 11 alpha, 15 beta-dihydroxy derivative by microbiologica...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： McMorris TC,Le PH,Preus MW,Schow SR,Weihe GR

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor profiles and in vivo activity of tibolone, and its primary metabolites, Delta(4)-isomer, and 3alpha- and 3beta-hydroxytibolone, were studied and compared to those of structurally related compounds. The Delta(4)-isomer was the strongest binder and activator of the progesterone receptor (PR); tibolone was 1...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： de Gooyer ME,Deckers GH,Schoonen WG,Verheul HA,Kloosterboer HJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of testosterone (T) was studied in normal adult male rats using a constant infusion of trace amounts of the 3H-steroid into a tail vein for 3 h in order to attain a state of equilibrium. Samples of plasma, liver, kidney, prostate, seminal vesicles and muscle were analysed for 3H-testosterone, 3H-5alpha-...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Lee DK,Bird CE,Clark AF

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) regulate the activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis at several levels. Although hypothalamic CRH secretion may be the primary mechanism by which these cytokines activate the HPA axis, IL-1 expression is increased within t...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Tkachenko IV,Jääskeläinen T,Jääskeläinen J,Palvimo JJ,Voutilainen R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some properties of immunoreactive estradiol secreted by adrenals and ovaries of immature female rats were studied. It was shown that adrenals and ovaries of 15-day-old animals secrete approximately equal amounts of immunoreactive estradiol, with thin-layer chromatogram of immunoreactive material being identical for bo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Tinnikov AA,Bazhan NM,Yakovleva TV

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Abnormal secretion of thyroid hormones, growth hormone, cortisol and androgens influences body composition. We hypothesised that higher cortisol excretion, in combination with higher androgen and IGF-I concentrations, had a synergistic, favourable effect on body mass and bone. DESIGN, PATIENTS AND METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Ragnarsson O,Trimpou P,Oleröd G,Landin-Wilhelmsen K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive and specific quantification method of estrone and estradiol in human serum was described based upon the use of picolinoyl derivatization and liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) in a positive mode. Estrogens were treated with picolinoyl chloride hydrochloride o...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Yamashita K,Okuyama M,Watanabe Y,Honma S,Kobayashi S,Numazawa M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00