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Describe steroids

Describe steroids? What are various illustrations of steroids with a biological function?

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Steroids are lipids depends in an angular combination of 4 carbon rings, three of them made up of 6 carbons and one ring made up of 5 carbons in the extremity. The union of each and every ring to the adjacent ring is made up by the sharing of two adjacent carbons belonging to both rings.

Cholesterol, bile salts, progesterone and testosterone, the sexual hormones estrogen, the corticosteroids and the pro-vitamin D are illustrations of steroids.

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