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THE manifold and overlapping activities of hormonal steroids tend to give the impression that there is no orderly pharmacological correlation among them. It is known that testoid or 'male' compounds may have folliculoid or 'female' hormone-like activities, that adrenal steroids may imitate the hormone of the corpus luteum, and so forth. An additional complication has recently been introduced by the observation that under suitable experimental conditions all steroid hormones exhibit anaesthetic properties.
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SELYE, H. AN ATTEMPT AT A NATURAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE STEROIDS. Nature 151, 662–663 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151662a0
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