Pregnenolone
CAS NO.:145-13-1
MF:C21H32O2
EINECS NO.:205-647-4
MF:C21H32O2
EINECS NO.:205-647-4
API152
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Pregnenolone is a natural steroid hormone that serves as a precursor for a wide range of steroids,
including mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens.
Pregnenolone sulfate modulates NMDA receptor responses to exogenously applied glutamate
and stimulates transient receptor potential melastatin 3 (TRPM3).
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Pregnenolone is a steroid hormone involved in the steroidogenesis of progesterone, mineralocorticoids,
glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens.
As such it is a prohormone. Pregnenolone is a GABAA an tagonist and increases neurogenesis in the hippocampus.
It is a modulator of cytochrome P 450-3A.



