1,4-Chirality transfer via the ester enolate Claisen rearrangements in the preparation of (25R)- and (25S)-cholestenoic acids.

abstract：:The biosynthesis of progesterone from [3H]pregnenolone was curvilinear over a 6 h time course in human placenta cytotrophoblasts and in human placenta choriocarcinoma cells (JEG-3 cells). Mass measurements determined independently by radioimmunoassay indicate that the progesterone synthesized by cytotrophoblasts (21.0...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Sharp RB,Penning TM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brassinosteroids (BRs) control several important agronomic traits, such as strengthening resistance to diverse adversity, improving the quality, and increasing crop yield. Their chemical structures and varieties, specific methods for the evaluation of bioactivities, structure-activity relationships, potential novel co...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Liu J,Zhang D,Sun X,Ding T,Lei B,Zhang C

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are presented on the urinary corticosteroid metabolic profile of the mouse strain 129/svJ. Through the use of GC/MS we have characterized, or tentatively identified corticosterone (Kendall's compound B) metabolites of both the 11beta-hydroxy and 11-carbonyl (compound A) series in urine. Full mass spectra of the m...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Shackleton CH,Hughes BA,Lavery GG,Walker EA,Stewart PM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report on the progress we have made in elucidating the mechanisms through which estrogen alters synaptic responses in hypothalamic neurons. We examined the modulation by estrogen of the coupling of various receptor systems to inwardly rectifying and small conductance, Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (SK) channels. We us...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Kelly MJ,Rønnekleiv OK,Ibrahim N,Lagrange AH,Wagner EJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic use of progesterone following traumatic brain injury has recently entered phase III clinical trials as a means of neuroprotection. Although it has been hypothesized that progesterone protects against calcium overload following excitotoxic shock, the exact mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Luoma JI,Kelley BG,Mermelstein PG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme immunoassay for estrone in swine serum was established. For this, beta-galactosidase from E. coli was conjugated through estrone-17 (O-carboxymethyl)oxime using a mixed anhydride reaction. The percentage of immunoreactive estrone-17 (O-carboxymethyl)oxime-beta-galactosidase conjugate was estimated to be abou...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Tamamura F,Nakao T,Tsunoda N,Kawata K

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present work was to analyze the effect of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on several metabolic risk factors, including cardiovascular health and insulin resistance, in aged rats submitted to a high-fat diet. For that, weaned rats were fed on a high-fat diet until 20 months of age. In the last 13 weeks of ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Pérez-de-Heredia F,Sánchez J,Priego T,Nicolás F,Portillo Mdel P,Palou A,Zamora S,Garaulet M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 30 years, numerous studies in invertebrates and vertebrates have established a role of calcium in oocyte maturation as well as in the resumption and progression of follicular development. Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCO) is characterized by hyperandrogenic chronic anovulation, theca cell hyperplasia, an...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Thys-Jacobs S,Donovan D,Papadopoulos A,Sarrel P,Bilezikian JP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are well-recognized modulators of immunocytes and osteoblasts via specific receptor-mediated mechanisms. We have evaluated the in vitro effect of interleukin 2 (IL-2) on the expression of glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) obtained from healthy donors and osteo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Sartori ML,Masera RG,Staurenghi A,Racca S,Angeli A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease results in a reduction in 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) synthesis and an accumulation of phosphorus in the blood, leading to secondary hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy. Vitamin D analogs that retain the ability to suppress PTH but that are less calcemic and phosphatemic than...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Williams KB,DeLuca HF

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotransformation of an orally active contraceptive drug, desogestrel (1), with Cunninghamella elegans yielded a new metabolite, 13β-ethyl-11-methylene-18,19-dinor-17α-pregn-4-en-20-yn-17β-ol-3,6-dione (2), along with five known metabolites, i.e., 13β-ethyl-11-methylene-18,19-dinor-17α-pregn-4-en-20-yn-3β,6β,17β-triol...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Ibrahim I,Atia-Tul-Wahab,Khan N,Siddiqui M,Hassan Ajandouz E,Jabeen A,Mesmar J,Baydoun E,Iqbal Choudhary M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is an endogenous steroid hormone involved in a number of biological actions in humans and rodents, but its effects on renal tissue have not yet been fully understood. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of DHEA treatment on diabetic rats, mainly in relation to renal function and...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Jahn MP,Gomes LF,Jacob MH,da Rocha Janner D,Araújo AS,Belló-Klein A,Ribeiro MF,Kucharski LC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for the quantitation of the sum of free, glucuronidated and urine is described. The method is reliable and accurate. Using this method, urinary excretion of 16 alpha-hydroxyestrone was determined in normal men, premenopausal women, and postmenopausal women. The values were compared to the urinary ex...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Naganuma H,Hershcopf RJ,Michnovicz JJ,Miyairi S,Bradlow HL,Fishman J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review lays out the evidence for the role of E2 in homeostatic and hedonic feeding across several species. While significant effort has been expended on homeostatic feeding research, more studies for hedonic feeding need to be conducted (i.e. are there increases in meal size and enhanced motivation to natural foo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Rivera HM,Stincic TL

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating levels (mean +/- SD) of estrone sulfate (E1S), estrone (E1) and estradiol-17 beta (E2) were measured in normal and cirrhotic postmenopausal women matched for body weight and age. In cirrhotic postmenopausal women, the E1S concentrations (201 +/- 46 pg/ml), while both E1 and E2 levels showed an increase (46...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Jasonni VM,Bulletti C,Bolelli GF,Franceschetti F,Bonavia M,Ciotti P,Flamigni C

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen replacement therapy increases risk for ovarian epithelial cancer, a cancer of mainly older women, yet the response of older ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) to repeat estrogen exposure overtime has not been studied. We have previously reported significant reductions in estrogen receptor (ER) protein...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Gulliver LS,Hurst PR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from the structure of ice (in which each water molecule is surrounded by other four water molecules forming a tetrahedron with a value of 4.51Å for the edge O-O distance), and the knowledge that this value also corresponds to the O7-O12 distance of the skeleton of cholic acid, it is hypothesized that two ster...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Soto VH,Alvarez M,Meijide F,Trillo JV,Antelo A,Jover A,Galantini L,Tato JV

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the development of receptivity the endometrium undergoes specific changes. Several factors have been suggested as markers of endometrial receptivity. A common feature for most of these factors is that they are directly, or indirectly, regulated by progesterone. The effect of various doses and regimens of mifepristo...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Danielsson KG,Marions L,Bygdeman M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundant expression of progesterone receptors (PR) in human meningiomas is well established. It is unknown, however, how PR expression is regulated, especially since estrogen receptors (ER) are virtually absent in these tumors. At the mRNA level, ER splice variants occur in meningioma but these appear not to be in...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Blankenstein MA,Verheijen FM,Jacobs JM,Donker TH,van Duijnhoven MW,Thijssen JH

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the binding characteristics of [3H]Delta(5)-androstene-3beta,17beta-diol to rabbit vaginal cytosolic and nuclear extracts and in freshly excised intact tissue strips. [3H]delta(5)-Androstene-3beta,17beta-diol bound to a protein(s) in the vaginal nuclear extract with high affinity (K(d)=3...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Traish AM,Huang YH,Min K,Kim NN,Munarriz R,Goldstein I

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:7 beta-Methyl-chenodeoxycholic acid (7-MeCDC, 3 alpha, 7 alpha-dihydroxy-7 beta-methyl-5 beta-cholan-24-oic acid), 7 alpha-methyl-ursodeoxycholic acid (7-MeUDC, 3 alpha, 7 beta-dihydroxy-7 alpha-methyl-5 beta-cholan-24-oic acid), 7 xi-methyl-lithocholic acid (7-MeLC, 3 alpha-hydroxy-7 xi-methyl-5 beta-cholan-24-oic ac...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Hylemon PB,Moody DP,Cohen BI,Une M,Mosbach EH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GCs) are essential steroid hormones that regulate numerous metabolic and homeostatic functions in almost all physiological systems. Synthetic glucocorticoids are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of various conditions including autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases. G...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Sulaiman RS,Kadmiel M,Cidlowski JA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventral prostate was used as a system to study the nature and properties of microsomal androgen receptor. The endoplasmic reticulum from rat ventral prostate contains high-affinity, low-capacity binding sites for androgen that are intrinsic to this intracellular compartment. Microsomal androgen receptors are not due t...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Steinsapir J,Muldoon TG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete analysis of the proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of desoxycorticosterone (DOC) has been made using selective double irradiation, two-dimensional experiments, relaxation rate, and nuclear Overhauser effect measurements in order to specify the structure and conformation of products encountered during ...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Kouadio L,Bernard P,Sabot JF,Petit-Ramel MM,Barbier CM,Pinatel HJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethynylestradiol (EE2) is one of the most potent endocrine disrupting compounds capable to induce estrogenic effects even at trace level concentrations in the aquatic environment. Methods for detecting EE2 in such concentrations are generally based on GC or HPLC coupled to at least one mass spectrometer. Another appro...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Schneider C,Schöler HF,Schneider RJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to examine the mechanism whereby beta-lipotropin stimulates adrenal steroidogenesis. In guinea pig adrenal cells, beta-lipotropin (10(-8) M) increased basal steroid production 6-, 4-, and 5-fold for cortisol, androstenedione, and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), respectively, whereas the...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： O'Connell Y,McKenna TJ,Cunningham SK

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested that progestins play a role in the etiology of breast cancer; however, the mechanisms by which progestins promote tumor formation/progression have not been defined. Progestin action, in target tissues such as the breast, is mediated by the progesterone receptor (PR). PR signaling is compl...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Treviño LS,Bingman WE 3rd,Edwards DP,Nl W

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine new steroidal glycosides, named as stauntosides C-K (2, 5, 7-10, 13, 14, and 16), along with seven known compounds (1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, and 15) were isolated from the 95% ethanol extract of the roots of Cynanchum stauntonii. The structures of these new compounds were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectrosc...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Yu JQ,Deng AJ,Qin HL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of progestins are available for therapeutic use. It is convenient to classify them into those related in chemical structure to progesterone or testosterone. Progestins related to progesterone can be subdivided into pregnanes and 19-norpregnanes, whereas those related to testosterone can be subdivided into th...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Stanczyk FZ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant changes in % free serum E2, T and P were observed during the annual cycle of the turtle. In contrast no significant changes in SHBG affinity constants (2.29-4.48 x 10(8) M-7) were found and binding capacity for estradiol 17B was between 3.47 and 3.96 x 10(-7) M except in preovulatory animals (2.00 +/- 0.25...

journal_title：Steroids

authors： Albert C,Callard IP

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00