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SUBMITTER: Prokai-Tatrai K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6582959 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ACS chemical neuroscience 20180605 11
Uterotrophic effect of 17α-estradiol, the C17 epimer of the main human estrogen 17β-estradiol, was shown to manifest in animal models at doses lower than those necessary for central outcome raising concerns about its potential to treat maladies of the central nervous system. We introduce here 10β,17α-dihydroxyestra-1,4-dien-3-one (α-DHED) that acts as a bioprecursor prodrug producing 17α-estradiol with remarkable selectivity to the brain and, therefore, without appreciable exposure of the periph ...[more]