Pregnenolone

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-016210",
  "term": "Pregnenolone",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An endogenous steroid hormone synthesized from cholesterol, which can act either as a neuroactive steroid or as a prohormone for progestogens, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, estrogens, and the neuroactive steroids.",
  "synonyms": [
    "arthenolone",
    "delta5-pregnenolone",
    "enelone",
    "regnosone"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/pregnenolone/"
}