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    Stigmasterol – a plant sterol (phytosterol) – is among the most abundant of plant sterols, having a major function to maintain the structure and physiology...
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    from stigmasterol 1, which involves a specific hydrogenation of the side-chain of stigmasterol. The first step in the synthesis forms stigmasterol tosylate...
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  • Stigmasterol-rich plant sterols is a food additive. It is a mixture derived from soybeans that consists of the plant sterols stigmasterol, β-sitosterol...
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    human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's...
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    discovered a process to convert a much more abundant phytosteroid -- stigmasterol from soybean -- into progesterone. His process was improved by Padmanabhan...
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    cholesterol is obtained. Removing a hydrogen from carbons 22 and 23 yields stigmasterol (stigmasta-5,22-dien-3β-ol). By hydrogenating the double bond between...
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    as well as sterol compounds, including β-sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol. One study in rats found the application of high doses of dried plant...
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    Notable examples of phytosterols include campesterol, sitosterol, and stigmasterol. Zoosterols are sterols found in animals. The most significant zoosterol...
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  • genistin, genistein, coumestrol, kwakhurin, and mirificine, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, and mirificoumestan.[citation needed] There is contradictory...
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    Trialcohols Glycerol Sterols Cholesterol Ergosterol Lanosterol β-Sitosterol Stigmasterol Fluoroalcohols 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol 2-Fluoroethanol...
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    dispersed on the wind. The plant contains the compounds β-sitosterol and stigmasterol, which have antidiabetic properties. The β-sitosterol isolated from the...
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    Phytosterols Campesterol Citrostadienol Cycloartenol Sitostanol Sitosterol Stigmasterol Tocopherols Cholesterol Testosterone Cholecalciferol Ecdysones Other...
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    levels and very high levels of plant sterols (sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, avenosterol) and 5α-saturated stanols in their plasma. Plasma sitosterol...
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    Trialcohols Glycerol Sterols Cholesterol Ergosterol Lanosterol β-Sitosterol Stigmasterol Fluoroalcohols 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol 2-Fluoroethanol...
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    osteoporosis, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and blood cancer. The sterols and stigmasterol in tofu are both effective ingredients for suppressing cancer. The dessert...
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    kaempferol, rhamnetin, and eugenitin, triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid, stigmasterol, and campesterol and several sesquiterpenes. Although eugenol has not...
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    developed a process for preparing cortisone from the soybean sterol stigmasterol. The microbiological oxygenation invented by Peterson and Murry is a...
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    of the other double bond. In many plants, this is then converted into stigmasterol, while in many fungi, it is the precursor to ergosterol.[citation needed]...
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    as well as a similarly functionalized stigmasterol derivative, 6-palmityl-Δ7-stigmasterol-Δ-D-glucoside. Pokeweed berries also contain betalain...
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    5-hydroxy-3-isoprenyl flavone—and two phytosterols—β-sitosterol and stigmasterol—have been isolated from the plant. The analgesic alkaloid (5′-Hydroxymethyl-1′-(1...
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    in phenols (tocopherols) and steroids (campesterol, beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol). Grapeseed oil contains small amounts of vitamin E, but safflower oil...
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    Trialcohols Glycerol Sterols Cholesterol Ergosterol Lanosterol β-Sitosterol Stigmasterol Fluoroalcohols 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol 2-Fluoroethanol...
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    feature unique to kpangnan butter is its high stigmasterol content (around 45% of the sterol content). Stigmasterol is the sterol unsaturated vegetable fat...
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    (echinocystic acid and oleanolic acid), steroids (daucosterol, β-sitosterol, and stigmasterol), amino acids and peptides (2-amino-4-ethylidenepentanedioic acid and...
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    (marine) algal matter in the environment, and is one of the ingredients in stigmasterol-rich plant sterols (Number E499 in the European numbering system). There...
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    diosgenin, guggulsterone) Phytosterols (e.g., β-sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol) Resorcylic acid lactones (e.g., zearalanone, α-zearalenol, β-zearalenol...
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    produce 16-DPA from solanine. Progesterone can also be made from the stigmasterol found in soybean oil also. c.f. Percy Julian. A total synthesis of progesterone...
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    diosgenin, guggulsterone) Phytosterols (e.g., β-sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol) Resorcylic acid lactones (e.g., zearalanone, α-zearalenol, β-zearalenol...
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  • Trialcohols Glycerol Sterols Cholesterol Ergosterol Lanosterol β-Sitosterol Stigmasterol Fluoroalcohols 1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol 2-Fluoroethanol...
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    ferulic and sinapic acids, as well as sterols (as brassicasterol and stigmasterol), secoiridoid and the glycosides, swertiamarin, and sweroside. Centaurium...
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