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Wiktionary
n. (context steroid hormone English) An androgenic hormone, excreted in the urine, somewhat less active than testosterone.
WordNet
n. an androgenic hormone that is less active than testosterone
Wikipedia
Androsterone, or 3α-hydroxy-5α-androstan-17-one, is an endogenous steroid hormone, neurosteroid, and putative pheromone. It is a weak androgen with a potency that is approximately 1/7th that of testosterone. In addition, it can be converted to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) from 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, bypassing conventional intermediates such as androstenedione and testosterone, and as such, can be considered to be a metabolic intermediate in its own right. Androsterone is also known to be an inhibitory androstane neurosteroid, acting as a positive allosteric modulator of the GABA receptor, and possesses anticonvulsant effects. The unnatural enantiomer of androsterone is more potent as a positive allosteric modulator of GABA receptors and as an anticonvulsant than the natural form. Androsterone's 3β- isomer is epiandrosterone, and its 5β- epimer is etiocholanolone.
Usage examples of "androsterone".
The molecule of estrone, for instance, differs from that of androsterone only in the presence of three double bonds and in the absence of carbon-ig.
As f at back as the 1960’s two chemicals, copulin and androsterone, were found to be sexual signals in monkeys, and to some extent in human beings.
As far back as the 1960’s two chemicals, copulin and androsterone, were found to be sexual signals in monkeys, and to some extent in human beings.