Category:
Hormones
CAS NO:
26538-44-3
Standard:
USP,In-house Standards,Ph. Int,
Zeranol, a metabolite of the mycoestrogen zearalenone, is an estrogen receptor agonist. Zeranol is used as a growth promoter of livestock such as ruminant cattle due to its strong estrogenic activity.
Zeranol is non-steroidal estrogen analog, derived from fungi in the Fusarium family, and may be found as a contaminant in fungus-infected crops such as corn. It is 3-4x more potent as an estrogen agonist than the related compound zearalenone, zearalanone and zearalenol.