Chlormethenmadinone acetate (CMMA), also known as chlorsuperlutin, is a
progestin
A progestogen, also referred to as a progestagen, gestagen, or gestogen, is a type of medication which produces effects similar to those of the natural female sex hormone progesterone in the body. A progestin is a '' synthetic'' progestogen. Pro ...
medication which was developed in
Czechoslovakia
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, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
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in the 1960s.
[Sterba, R. (1968). New biological application of contraceptive steroids. Endocrinologia Experimentalis, 2(2), 101-110. https://www.popline.org/node/469522 ] It has been used in combination with
mestranol
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, menopausal hormone therapy, and the treatment of menstrual disorders. It is formulated in ...
in
birth control pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. The pill contains two important hormones: progest ...
s under the brand names Biogest, Sterolibrin, and Antigest B,
and in
veterinary medicine
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...
under the brand name Agelin.
Analogues of CMMA include
bromethenmadinone acetate (bromsuperlutin), which was assessed but was never marketed,
and
melengestrol acetate
Melengestrol acetate (MLGA), sold under the brand names Heifermax and MGA among others, is a progestin medication which is used in animal reproduction. It is not approved for use in humans, and is instead used as an implantable contraceptive for ...
(methylsuperlutin), which is used in veterinary medicine.
See also
*
List of progestogen esters § Esters of 17α-hydroxyprogesterone derivatives
*
16-Methylene-17α-hydroxyprogesterone acetate
16-Methylene-17α-hydroxyprogesterone acetate is a progestin of the 17α-hydroxyprogesterone group which was never marketed. Given orally, it shows about 2.5-fold the progestogenic activity of parenteral progesterone in animal bioassays. It is a ...
References
Abandoned drugs
Acetate esters
Chloroarenes
Diketones
Pregnanes
Progestogen esters
Progestogens
Veterinary drugs
Vinylidene compounds
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