| Term: | blood plasma progesterone |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | blood plasma |
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| Definition: | Portion of organism substance that is the liquid matrix of blood. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005654] |
| Name: | progesterone |
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| Synonyms: | (S)-4-Pregnene-3,20-dione, (S)-Pregn-4-en-3,20-dione, (S)-Progesterone, 17alpha-progesterone, 4-Pregnene-3,20-dione, Agolutin, Akrolutin, corpus luteum hormone, Crinone, Delta(4)-pregnene-3,20-dione, Gelbkoerperhormon, luteohormone, pregn-4-ene-3,20-dione, Progesteron, Progesterone |
| Definition: | A C21-steroid hormone in which a pregnane skeleton carries oxo substituents at positions 3 and 20 and is unsaturated at C(4)-C(5). As a hormone, it is involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis of humans and other species. |
| Ontology: | ChEBI [CHEBI:17026] ( EBI ) |