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Crocetin dialdehyde is an apo carotenoid diterpenoid compound arising from oxidative degradation of the beta,beta-carotene skeleton at the 8- and 8'-positions. It is an enal, a dialdehyde and an apo carotenoid diterpenoid.

Ethinyl estradiol. A semisynthetic alkylated estradiol with a 17-alpha-ethinyl substitution. It has high estrogenic potency when administered orally, and is often used as the estrogenic component in oral contraceptives. -- Pubchem; estradiol (17-beta estradiol) (also oestradiol) is a sex hormone. Labelled the "female" hormone but also present in males it represents the major estrogen in humans. Critical for sexual functioning, estradiol also supports bone growth. -- Wikipedia; One of the fascinating twists to mammalian sexual differentiation is that estradiol is one of the two active metabolites of testosterone in males (the other being dihydrotestosterone). estradiol cannot be transferred readily from the circulation into the brain. Since fetuses of both sexes are exposed to similarly high levels of maternal estradiol, it can play little role in prenatal sexual differentiation. However, testosterone enters the central nervous system more freely and significant amounts are aromatized to estradiol within the brain of most male mammals, including humans. There is now much evidence that the programming of adult male sexual behavior in "lower mammals," (such as mounting rather than lordosis behavior), is largely dependent on estradiol produced in the central nervous system during prenatal life and early infancy from testosterone. We do not yet know whether this process plays a minimal or significant part in human sexual behaviors. -- Wikipedia; A synthetic form of estradiol, called ethinyl estradiol is a major component of hormonal contraceptive devices. Combined oral contraceptives contain ethinyl estradiol and a progestin, which both contribute to the inhibition of GnRH, LH, and FSH. The inhibition of these hormones accounts for the ability of combined oral contraceptives or birth control pills to prevent ovulation and thus prevent pregnancy. Other types of hormonal birth control contain only progestins and no ethinyl estradiol. -- Wikipedia.

Exemestane is an oral steroidal aromatase inhibitor used in the adjuvant treatment of hormonally-responsive (also called hormone-receptor-positive, estrogen-responsive) breast cancer in postmenopausal women. It acts as a false substrate for the aromatase enzyme, and is processed to an intermediate that binds irreversibly to the active site of the enzyme causing its inactivation.

5-Methoxy-1,7-diphenyl-3-heptanone is found in herbs and spices. 5-Methoxy-1,7-diphenyl-3-heptanone is a constituent of rhizomes of Alpinia officinarum (lesser galangal).

17-alpha-ethinyl estradiol is a metabolite of mestranol. Mestranol is the 3-methyl ether of ethinylestradiol. It was the estrogen used in many of the first oral contraceptives. It is a biologically inactive prodrug of ethinylestradiol to which it is demethylated in the liver with a conversion efficiency of 70% (50 µg of mestranol is pharmacokinetically bioequivalent to 35 µg of ethinylestradiol). (Wikipedia)

Eicosa-5,8,11,14-tetraynoic acid is a long-chain fatty acid. A 20-carbon unsaturated fatty acid containing 4 alkyne bonds. It inhibits the enzymatic conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandins E(2) and F(2a).

Crocetin dialdehyde is a member of the class of compounds known as acyclic diterpenoids. Acyclic diterpenoids are diterpenoids (compounds made of four consecutive isoprene units) that do not contain a cycle. Crocetin dialdehyde is practically insoluble (in water) and an extremely weak basic (essentially neutral) compound (based on its pKa). Crocetin dialdehyde can be found in a number of food items such as purple laver, sweet bay, rowanberry, and yellow wax bean, which makes crocetin dialdehyde a potential biomarker for the consumption of these food products.

4,8,11,14-Eicosatetraynoic acid

5,8,11,14-Eicosatetraynoic acid

Crocetindial

An apo carotenoid diterpenoid compound arising from oxidative degradation of the beta,beta-carotene skeleton at the 8- and 8'-positions." []