Chemistry Steroids
Massimo Capobianco
The term steroid identify any lipid with four fused carbon rings [policicloalifatici, A, B, C, D] and, often, an alkyl tail, steroids are cholesterol, sex hormones and adrenocortical hormones.
Steroids are biosintetizzati through the mevalonic acid pathway.
common feature is the presence of four rings of carbon atoms three to six cycles [A, B, C] and 1 cycle [D] a provision similar to the five atoms in ciclopentanoperidrofenantrene .
While the various steroids differ in the presence or absence of the carbon atoms identified by up to 18 and the functional groups present on the rest of the structure:
have known hundreds of different steroids, isolated from animal and plant species. Their most important role in living systems is to act as hormones. In human physiology and medicine, the most important steroids are cholesterol, steroid hormones, their precursors and metabolites
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