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Oxandrolone

A synthetic anabolic steroid, described in 1962 by chemists Raphael Pappo and Christopher Jung and introduced in the United States in 1964: it has been used to regain weight after surgery and trauma and to aid recovery after severe burns. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?Its name reveals its peculiarity: in ring A of the steroid structure an oxygen atom takes the place of the carbon at position 2, a change that makes it more resistant to inactivation in muscle.

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