A hormone formed in the adrenal glands of the fetus and believed to have some influence on the aging process.
A sex hormone secreted by the testes and adrenal glands that stimulates development of secondary sex characteristics.
An androgenic substance, C19H2802, present in urine. It has about one fifth the potency of androsterone. The level of this hormone in plasma decreases with age. It is promoted as an antiaging, anticancer, and antiatherosclerosis agent by alternative medicine practitioners.
This particular compound is a steroid hormone that operates as a progenitor for androstenedione as well as testosterone.