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Conjugated estrogens (CEs), or conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs), sold under the brand name Premarin among others, is an estrogen medication which is used in menopausal hormone therapy and for various other indications.
Tritiated estradiol radioactivity in blood with a single intramuscular injection of 1.5 to 2.8 μg tritiated estradiol in aqueous solution in four women. [1] Peak blood radioactivity occurred within 15 minutes in three of the women and in the remaining woman after 2 hours. [1] Source: Davis et al. (1963). [1]
Estrone is an estrogen, specifically an agonist of the estrogen receptors (ERs) ERα and ERβ. [5] [44] It is a far less potent estrogen than is estradiol, and as such is a relatively weak estrogen. [5] [44] Given by subcutaneous injection in mice, estradiol is about 10-fold more potent than estrone and about 100-fold more potent than estriol. [45]
Estrogen Low Standard High Oral: Estradiol: 0.5–1 mg/day: 1–2 mg/day: 2–4 mg/day Estradiol valerate: ... IM Tooltip Intramuscular or SC injection: Estradiol ...
In another study, a dosage of 1 mg/day oral micronized estradiol in healthy older men, which increased circulating estradiol levels by a relatively high amount of 6-fold (to 159 pg/mL), estrone levels by 15-fold (to 386 pg/mL), and SHBG levels by 17%, was found to suppress total testosterone levels by 27% (to 436 ng/dL) and free testosterone ...
Estradiol has been used at high doses to suppress sex drive in men with sexual deviance such as paraphilias and in sex offenders. [84] [85] [86] It has specifically been used for this indication in the forms of intramuscular injections of estradiol valerate and estradiol undecylate and of subcutaneous pellet implants of estradiol. [84] [85] [86]
Esterified estrogens (EEs), sold under the brand names Estratab and Menest among others, is an estrogen medication which is used hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms and low sex hormone levels in women, to treat breast cancer in both women and men, and to treat prostate cancer in men.