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- Mestranol, sold under the brand names Enovid, Norinyl, and Ortho-Novum among others, is an estrogen medication which has been used in birth control pills...
- Mestranol/norethynodrel was the first combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP) being mestranol and norethynodrel. It sold as Enovid in the United States...
- of the estrogen mestranol (an intermediate in their synthesis), with the noretynodrel in Rock's 1954–5 study containing 4–7% mestranol. When further purifying...
- Mestranol/norethisterone (brand names Norethin, Noriday, Norinyl, Norquen, Ortho-Novum, others) is a combination of the estrogen ethinylestradiol and...
- all other combined oral contraceptives are mixtures of 1 to 2% EE or mestranol and an oral progestin. It has been speculated that the discovery of the...
- (Deposiston) Mestranol/anagestone acetate (Neo-Novum) Mestranol/chlormadinone acetate (C-Quens, Lutedion) Mestranol/etynodiol diacetate (Ovulen) Mestranol/hydroxyprogesterone...
- prevention of ovulation. All contain an estrogen, ethinylestradiol or mestranol, in varying amounts, and one of a number of different progestogens. (Regarding...
- to mestranol, in 1964, and shortly thereafter su****ded mestranol in COCs. Early COCs contained 40 to 100 μg/day EE and 50 to 150 μg/day mestranol. Ethinylestradiol...
- in 1957. It was specifically approved at this time in combination with mestranol for the treatment of gynecological and menstrual disorders. Subsequently...
- combined oral contraceptives in combination with ethinylestradiol or mestranol, and has been used in a combined injectable contraceptive in combination...