11 Ketotestosterone Article.

[ch1ckendinn3r]

Has anyone got the time to break down this article so it's easier to understand. Cheers

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[nostrum420]

Has anyone got the time to break down this article so it's easier to understand. Cheers

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Mostly it's just talking about potential therapeutic uses.

 

[StarScream66]

It's an in vitro study, so take it all with a grain of salt, but there are some relevant parts to look at.

Androgenic Potency of 11-Oxyandrogens
Considerable evidence has now demonstrated that 11KT and its 5α-reduced metabolite 11KDHT are potent and clinically relevant agonists of the human androgen receptor [...]

Using an [...] cell model expressing the human AR [...] (androgen receptor) found that the maximum androgenic activity of 11KT was similar to that of T (testosterone), and that the EC50 of 11KT was only 5-fold higher than T.

EC50 I had to look up.

Half maximal effective concentration (EC50) refers to the concentration of a drug, antibody or toxicant which induces a response halfway between the baseline and maximum after a specified exposure time.

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In a subsequent study, using an optimized in vitro reporter system of human AR activation, without the co-expression of glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, or progesterone receptors, 11KT demonstrated reproducible androgen potency

How much potency?

In a separate study, 11KT and 11KDHT were shown to bind to the human AR with affinities similar to that of T and DHT, and all four steroids promoted AR-regulated gene expression and cell growth in two androgen-dependent prostate cancer cell lines

That study is this one:
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Then they basically talk about what clinical applications it may have for various conditions that are not related to bodybuilding or anything. But, it sounds like 11KT is a promising compound that are at least as potent as test and DHT on androgen cells in an in vitro lab culture.