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FEEDING experiments on animals, carried out by Dr. O. Rosenheim and T. A. Webster, have shown that the immediate precursor of faecal coprosterol is not cholesterol but cholestenone, arising presumably from a primary oxidation product, cholestene-diol. The possible role of cholestenone in the conversion by the animal body of cholesterol into bile acids and certain sexual hormones is discussed.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 136, 479 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136479b0
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