ESTETROL

Estetrol is a 3-hydroxy steroid that is 17beta-estradiol which has been substituted at the 15alpha and 16alpha positions by two additional hydroxy groups. It is a natural estrogen produced exclusively during pregnancy by the fetal liver. It has a role as an estrogen, an estrogen receptor agonist, a human metabolite, a human xenobiotic metabolite and an oral contraceptive. It is a 3-hydroxy steroid, a 17beta-hydroxy steroid, a 16alpha-hydroxy steroid, a 15alpha-hydroxy steroid and a steroid hormone. It derives from a hydride of an estrane.|Estetrol has been investigated for the treatment and basic science of Prostatic Neoplasms.|Estetrol anhydrous is an Estrogen. The mechanism of action of estetrol anhydrous is as an Estrogen Receptor Agonist.|Therapeutic Estetrol is a synthetic steroid similar or identical to endogenous estetrol, a short-acting estrogen with both agonistic and antagonistic estrogen receptor activity. Administered orally, therapeutic estetrol binds to the estrogen receptor and as a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) exhibits estrogen agonism in certain tissues and estrogen antagonism in others. Displaying weak estrogen activity in the uterus, estetrol acts as an estrogen antagonist in breast tissue. Produced solely by the human fetal liver, endogenous estetrol is the primary estrogen metabolite of estrogen biosynthesis in the human fetal liver.|A metabolite of ESTRIOL with a 15-alpha-hydroxyl group. Estetrol can be converted from estriol sulfate or DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE by the fetal-placental unit.

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Estetrol is an estrogen steroid hormone exclusively produced by fetal liver from estradiol and estriol during pregnancy. It binds to estrogen receptors (ERs) with 4-fold higher affinity for ERα over ERβ and exhibits estrogenic effects in most tissues expressing ERs (bone, brain, vagina, and endometrium). In breast tumors, however, estetrol acts as an estrogen antagonist in the presence of estradiol, preventing tumor growth.

A metabolite of Estradiol. It is an estrogenic steroid synthesized exclusively by the fetal liver during human pregnancy and reaching the maternal circulation through the placenta.