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sex steroid

type of steroid hormone
Class type of: steroid hormone, sex hormone Q422812

Facts

4 properties
Subclass of
steroid hormone, sex hormone[1][2]
Has effect
secondary sex characteristic[6]
Has part(s)
androgen, estrogen, progestogen[3][4][5]
Produced by
gonad, adrenal gland[7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gonadal Steroid Hormone en sex steroid en sex hormone en gonadal steroids en Gonadal Steroid Hormones ar SEX HAR cs pohlavní hormon cs Pohlavní hormony da Kønshormon de Männliches Hormon de Sexualhormon de Sexualhormone de Geschlechtshormone de Geschlechtshormon el Φυλετικές ορμόνες el Φυλετική ορμόνη el Ορμόνες φύλου el Ορμόνες του φύλου es esteroide gonadal es esteroide sexual
🔖 Identifiers · 23
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85061983
GND ID
4054683-4
OpenAlex ID
C2779938979, C2908716204, C3020528001
BNCF Thesaurus ID
5459
Dewey Decimal Classification
571.8374
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/sex-hormone
Freebase ID
/m/032z43
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
sex-hormones, gonadal-hormones
KBpedia ID
SexHormone
MeSH descriptor ID
D012739
MeSH tree code
D06.472.334.851
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779938979, 2908716204
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Museum-digital tag ID
104635
NALT ID
8710
NDL Authority ID
00570304
NL CR AUT ID
ph119872
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3958376
SVKKL authority ID
h0009709-pohlavni-hormony
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/sex-hormone, earth-and-planetary-sciences/sex-hormone, medicine-and-dentistry/sex-hormone, neuroscience/sex-hormone, nursing-and-health-professions/sex-hormone, pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/sex-hormone, physics-and-astronomy/sex-hormone, agricultural-and-biological-sciences/sex-steroid, veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/sex-steroid
Store medisinske leksikon ID
kjønnshormoner
Topic's main category
Category:Sex hormones
UMLS CUI
C0036884
Yale LUX ID
concept/50acc59d-2b0a-42f8-b653-fe222ec80801

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🔗 Connections
Has part(s) 3
estrogen, androgen, progestogen
Subtypes 3
estrogen, androgen, progestogen
Produced by 2
adrenal gland, gonad
← Category's main topic 2
Category:Sex hormones, Category:Sex steroids
← Product or material produced 2
gonad, Novo
Has effect 1
secondary sex characteristic
Subclass of 1
steroid hormone
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sex hormones
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Use and Application

Components include androgen[3], a class of chemical entities with similar applications or functions[9]; estrogen[4], a class of chemical entities with similar applications or functions[10]; and progestogen[5], a medication[11].

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  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → steroid hormone, sex hormone
    Sitelink count → 51
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'be', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: sex hormone"
  2. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Sex hormones
    Has part(s) → androgen, estrogen, progestogen
    Produced by → gonad, adrenal gland
    SVKKL authority ID → h0009709-pohlavni-hormony
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0009709-pohlavni-hormony, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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