Adrenocortical/mineralocorticoid Steroid.
Deoxycorticosterone acetate has been used to induce hypertensive pregnancy. It has also been used to investigate the effect of low epicatechin dosing on the cardiovascular function of deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats.
ChEBI: Deoxycorticosterone acetate is a corticosteroid hormone.
Doca (Organon); Percorten (Novartis) [Name previously used: Deoxycortone.].
Deoxycorticosterone acetate is an endogenous neurosteroid found in brain and peripheral circulation, which is produced by progesterone. It is both a mineralocorticoid and a glucocorticoid. It is used to treat adrenocortical insufficiency or Addison′s disease. Deoxycorticosterone acetate improves insulin sensitivity. It acts as a precursor to glucocorticoid corticosterone and the GABAergic neuroactive steroid (3α,5α)-3,21-dihydroxypregnan-20-one.
11-Deoxycorticosterone acetate recrystallises from EtOH as needles or Me2CO/hexane, and sublimes at high vacuum. It is partly soluble in MeOH, Me2CO, Et2O and dioxane but insoluble in H2O. [Reichstein & Euw Helv Chim Acta 23 136 1940, Romo et al. J Am Chem Soc 79 5034 1957; NMR: Shoolery & Rogers J Am Chem Soc 80 5121 1959, Beilstein 8 IV 2195.]
