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  2. Estrone (medication) - Wikipedia

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    Estrone is a naturally occurring and bioidentical estrogen, or an agonist of the estrogen receptor, the biological target of estrogens like endogenous estradiol. [5] It is a relatively weak estrogen, with much lower activity than estradiol. [5] However, estrone is converted in the body into estradiol, which provides most or all of its ...

  3. Estrone - Wikipedia

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    Estrone (E1), also spelled oestrone, is a steroid, a weak estrogen, and a minor female sex hormone. [1] It is one of three major endogenous estrogens, the others ...

  4. Estrogenic substances - Wikipedia

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    Estrogenic substances were also distinct from pure crystalline preparations such as estrone, estradiol, estriol, estradiol benzoate, and estradiol dipropionate. [1] The medication should additionally be distinguished from estrogen ovarian extracts, which had little activity and were considered to be essentially inactive.

  5. Esterified estrogens - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Hormone replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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    Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), also known as menopausal hormone therapy or postmenopausal hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy used to treat symptoms associated with female menopause.

  7. Estrogen ester - Wikipedia

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    An estrogen ester is an ester of an estrogen, most typically of estradiol but also of other estrogens such as estrone, estriol, and even nonsteroidal estrogens like diethylstilbestrol. [1] [2] [3] Esterification renders estradiol into a prodrug of estradiol with increased resistance to first-pass metabolism, slightly improving its oral ...

  8. Estrone/progesterone - Wikipedia

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    Estrone/progesterone (E1/P4), sold under the brand name Synergon, is a combination medication formulation of estrone, an estrogen, and progesterone, a progestogen. E1/P4 is used as an injectable preparation to induce withdrawal bleeding in women with non- pregnancy -related amenorrhea (absence of menstruation ).

  9. Equilin - Wikipedia

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    Equilin, also known as δ 7-estrone or as 7-dehydroestrone, as well as estra-1,3,5(10),7-tetraen-3-ol-17-one, is a naturally occurring estrane steroid and an analogue of estrone. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In terms of chemical structure and pharmacology , equilin is to 17β-dihydroequilin (δ 7 -17β-estradiol) as estrone is to estradiol .