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Spironolactone

97.0-103.0% (HPLC), powder, aldosterone receptor antagonist

Synonym(s):

4-Pregnen-21-oic acid-17α-ol-3-one-7α-thiol γ-lactone 7-acetate, 7α-(Acetylthio)-17α-hydroxy-3-oxopregn-4-ene-21-carboxylic acid γ-lactone

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C24H32O4S
CAS Number:
52-01-7
Molecular Weight:
416.57
EC Number:
200-133-6
MDL number:
MFCD00082250
UNSPSC Code:
51111800
PubChem Substance ID:
24277736
NACRES:
NA.77

product name

Spironolactone, 97.0-103.0%

Assay

97.0-103.0%

mp

207-208 °C (lit.)

solubility

chloroform: complete 50 mg/ml, clear, faintly yellow

SMILES string

CC(=O)S[C@@H]1CC2=CC(=O)CC[C@]2(C)[C@H]3CC[C@@]4(C)[C@@H](CC[C@@]45CCC(=O)O5)[C@H]13

InChI

1S/C24H32O4S/c1-14(25)29-19-13-15-12-16(26)4-8-22(15,2)17-5-9-23(3)18(21(17)19)6-10-24(23)11-7-20(27)28-24/h12,17-19,21H,4-11,13H2,1-3H3/t17-,18-,19+,21+,22-,23-,24+/m0/s1

InChI key

LXMSZDCAJNLERA-ZHYRCANASA-N

Gene Information

human ... HSD17B1(3292) , NR3C2(4306)
rat ... Ar(24208)

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Application

Spironolactone was added to rat diet to study the effect of long-term spironolactone use on renal function.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Spironolactone reduces aldosterone-induced potassium/magnesium loss and myocardial fibrosis. It reduces hypertension, improves the endothelial function and reduces the overall morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. Spironolactone improves nitric oxide bioactivity and vascular endothelial vasodilator dysfunction.
Spironolactone is a competitive aldosterone receptor antagonist. Used as potassium sparing diuretic.

Features and Benefits

This compound is featured on the Nuclear Receptors (Steroids) page of the Handbook of Receptor Classification and Signal Transduction. To browse other handbook pages, click here.

Preparation Note

Spironolactone yields clear, faint yellow solution in chloroform at 50 mg/ml.

Pictograms

Health hazard
GHS08

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H351,H360FD,H373

Hazard Classifications

Carc. 2 - Repr. 1B - STOT RE 2

Storage Class Code

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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B Pitt et al.
The New England journal of medicine, 341(10), 709-717 (1999-09-02)
Aldosterone is important in the pathophysiology of heart failure. In a doubleblind study, we enrolled 1663 patients who had severe heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of no more than 35 percent and who were being treated with
C A Farquharson et al.
Circulation, 101(6), 594-597 (2000-02-15)
The RALES study showed that spironolactone, added to conventional therapy for chronic heart failure, dramatically reduced mortality. We tested the hypothesis that this benefit was partially due to improvement in endothelial function and/or to amplified suppression of the vascular renin-angiotensin
Jakob Nielsen et al.
American journal of physiology. Renal physiology, 283(5), F923-F933 (2002-10-10)
Renal tubule profiling studies were carried out to investigate the long-term effects of administration of spironolactone, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, on abundances of the major Na transporter and Na channel proteins along the rat renal tubule. Oral administration of spironolactone
Neil Chapman et al.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 49(4), 839-845 (2007-02-21)
Spironolactone is recommended as fourth-line therapy for essential hypertension despite few supporting data for this indication. We evaluated the effect among 1411 participants in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial-Blood Pressure Lowering Arm who received spironolactone mainly as a fourth-line antihypertensive
A Sato et al.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, 22(1), 17-22 (1999-04-30)
There is increasing evidence for important cardiovascular effects of aldosterone via classical mineralocorticoid receptors in the heart. Administration of aldosterone with excess salt produces both cardiac hypertrophy and interstitial cardiac fibrosis in rats, and concomitant administration of potassium canrenoate at
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