"Pregnenolone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A 21-carbon steroid, derived from CHOLESTEROL and found in steroid hormone-producing tissues. Pregnenolone is the precursor to GONADAL STEROID HORMONES and the adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS.
| Descriptor ID |
D011284
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.745.745.725 D06.472.040.585.745 D06.472.334.851.687.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Pregnenolone- Pregnenolone
- 5-Pregnen-3-beta-ol-20-one
- 5 Pregnen 3 beta ol 20 one
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pregnenolone" by people in Profiles.
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Deligiannidis KM, Kroll-Desrosiers AR, Tan Y, Dubuke ML, Shaffer SA. Longitudinal proneuroactive and neuroactive steroid profiles in medication-free women with, without and at-risk for perinatal depression: A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020 11; 121:104827.
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Deligiannidis KM, Sikoglu EM, Shaffer SA, Frederick B, Svenson AE, Kopoyan A, Kosma CA, Rothschild AJ, Moore CM. GABAergic neuroactive steroids and resting-state functional connectivity in postpartum depression: a preliminary study. J Psychiatr Res. 2013 Jun; 47(6):816-28.