Oxandrolone: A Potent Anabolic Steroid of Novel Chemical Configuration

1 September 1962

journal article
research article
Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Vol. 22 (9) , 921-924
https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-22-9-921

Abstract

Oxandrolone, an analog of 17α-methyldihydrotestosterone in which the number 2 carbon atom of the phenanthrene nucleus has been replaced by an oxygen atom, has been shown in human subjects to possess approximately 6 times the anabolic potency of methyltestosterone.

Keywords

OXANDROLONE
CELL NUCLEUS
METHYLTESTOSTERONE