diosgenin in English
noun
1
a steroid compound obtained from Mexican yams and used in the synthesis of steroid hormones.
The naturally occurring plant sterol diosgenin from Mexican yams can be converted through a simple laboratory process called hydrolyzation into a steroid compound molecularly identical to human progesterone.
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1. Diosgenin has exhibited antitumor, blood lipid-regulating, anti-platelet aggregation and Bilifaction promotion effects
2. After sequencing the whole genome of Dioscorea zingiberensis, we revealed the evolutionary trajectory of the diosgenin Biosynthetic pathway in …
3. The present review encompasses the wide application of the Biotechnological techniques for diosgenin production via elucidating its biosynthetic pathway, in vitro production and mass propagation and elicitation