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- From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: DES structure?
- Message-ID: <14kmsdINNfgv@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:18:53 GMT
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- I noticed that DES is an estrogen, but its structure is totally different
- from other estrogens (in fact from all other steroids), because it doesn't
- have the four ring structure. So what's going on here? Does it get
- metabolized to a normal estrogen or does it work some other way?
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- Ken Shirriff shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
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