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hydroxysteroid

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hydroxysteroid /hy·droxy·ste·roid/ (-ster´oid) a steroid carrying a hydroxyl group.


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Splanchnic cortisol production occurs in humans: evidence for conversion of cortisone to cortisol via the 11-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11 beta-hsd) type 1 pathway.
Deserving consideration here are also the patients of Imperato-McGinley and her co-workers and other clinicians investigating situations of 5-alpha, 17-beta, and 3-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (see, e.
In addition to their estrogen receptor activity, isoflavones may also interfere with steroid metabolism by inhibiting aromatase, hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and steroid [alpha]-reductase, and by altering the ratio of estradiol metabolites.
 
 
 
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