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Cortisone
A steroid hormone of the adrenal cortex, isolated in the 1930s in the United States by Edward Kendall and Harold Mason. It is a prodrug: the liver converts it into cortisol, the active form, and it has been used as an anti-inflammatory since the late 1940s. This family brings together the active ingredient, labelled standards and other impurities.
Did you know?In Kendall's laboratory it was simply called “compound E” (cortisol was “compound F”); in Britain chemists worked out how to make it from hecogenin, extracted from the sisal plant.
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EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
