Steroids licorice root

Tamir S, Eizenberg M, Somjen D, Izrael S, Vaya J (2001) Estrogen-like activity of glabrene and other constituents isolated from licorice root. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol... 

There is considerable interest in understanding the structural bases for these differences because this information would be very useful in designing steroids and other compounds to selectively regulate the activity of one or more steroid dehydrogenases as a means of treating hormone-responsive diseases. There is precedent for this kind of treatment in the use of licorice extract from the root of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra [15,27] to treat Addison s disease,... 

The root and rhizomes of the licorice plant contain approximately S to 9% of a steroidal glycoside called glyiyrrhizin. In the glycoside form, glycyrrhizin is ISO times sweeter than. sugar. Also present ate tritetpenoids. gluco.se. mannose, and... 

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