Androsterone
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Androsterone(ADT) is a
steroid hormone with weak androgenic activity. It is made in the
liver from the
metabolism of
testosterone. It was first isolated in
1931, by
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt and Kurt Tscherning. They distilled over 17000 liters of male urine, from which they got 50 milligrams of crystalline androsterone, which was sufficient to find that the chemical formula was very similar to
estrone.
Androsterone may also act as a pheromone.
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