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CHEBI:64600 - C21-steroid hormone
| ChEBI ID | CHEBI:64600 |
| ChEBI Name | C21-steroid hormone |
| Stars | |
| ASCII Name | C21-steroid hormone |
| Definition | A steroid compound with a structure based on a 21-carbon (pregnane) skeleton that acts as a hormone. |
| Last Modified | 1 September 2014 |
| Submitter | Rebecca Foulger |
| Roles Classification |
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| Biological Role: | hormone Originally referring to an endogenous compound that is formed in specialized organ or group of cells and carried to another organ or group of cells, in the same organism, upon which it has a specific regulatory function, the term is now commonly used to include non-endogenous, semi-synthetic and fully synthetic analogues of such compounds. |
| ChEBI Ontology |
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| Outgoing Relation(s) |
| C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) is a C21-steroid (CHEBI:61313) |
| C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) is a steroid hormone (CHEBI:26764) |
| Incoming Relation(s) |
| 5α-pregnane-3,20-dione (CHEBI:28952) is a C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) |
| aldosterone (CHEBI:27584) is a C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) |
| progesterone (CHEBI:17026) is a C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) |
| triamcinolone (CHEBI:9667) is a C21-steroid hormone (CHEBI:64600) |
| Synonym | Source |
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| C21-steroid hormones | ChEBI |