Definition of Diosgenin. Meaning of Diosgenin. Synonyms of Diosgenin

- Diosgenin, a phytosteroid sapogenin, is the product of hydrolysis by acids, strong bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea...
- The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...
- yellow yam, colic root, and rheumatism root. Dioscorea villosa contains diosgenin, which despite claims is not a phytoestrogen and does not interact with...
- sapogenin called diosgenin which had previously been found in ****anese yams (Dioscorea tokoro). Marker showed that both sarsasapogenin and diosgenin could be...
- sapogenin, diosgenin. It is a source of diosgenin, which is used to prepare synthetic hormones such as progesterone and cortisone. Diosgenin extracted...
- nipponica, are a source for the extraction of diosgenin, a sapogenin steroid. The extracted diosgenin is used for the commercial synthesis of cortisone...
- from a variety of steroidal sapogenins. Industrially useful sources are diosgenin in mexican yams and solasodine from certain nightshades. These two sapogenins...
- cheaper and more convenient starting material, diosgenin from wild Mexican yams. His conversion of diosgenin into progesterone by a four-step process now...
- northeastern Mexico south to Panama. It is notable for its production of diosgenin, which is a precursor for the synthesis of hormones such as progesterone...
- the tuber "Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita) which has a high content of diosgenin, revolutionizing the production of synthetic hormones in the 1950s and...