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- noun biochemistry A
steroid formed by themetabolism ofprogesterone ; it is excreted in theurine ofpregnant women.
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- noun a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women
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Urine concentrations of E1, estradiol, estriol and pregnanediol significantly increased in all adults and children. emphasis added This is a study in humans NOT mice.
Gary Liberson, PhD: The Environment Kills: OK, Sort of PhD Gary Liberson 2010
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Urine concentrations of E1, estradiol, estriol and pregnanediol significantly increased in all adults and children. (emphasis added) This is a study in humans NOT mice.
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In the autumn of 1934, Butenandt succeeded in converting pregnanediol into progresterone.
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They also demonstrated its close relationship with pregnanediol, a physiologically inactive dihydric alcohol which Butenandt and Marrian had found independently of one another in the urine of pregnant women.
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