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Steroids that bring about MOLTING or ecdysis in insects. Ecdysteroids include the endogenous insect hormones (ECDYSONE and ECDYSTERONE) and the insect-molting hormones found in plants, the phytoecdysteroids. Phytoecdysteroids are natural insecticides.
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- Ecdysteroid
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analogs & derivatives, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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2002; use ECDYSTEROIDS (NM) 1976-2001
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- Invertebrate Hormones (1976-1995)
- Steroids (1992-2001)
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- National Library of Medicine. Ecdysteroids. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D026461. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D026461
- Ecdysteroids. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecdysteroid
- Ecdysteroids. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138983