Oxandrolone also known as oxandrin is a drug first synthesized by Raphael Pappo while at Searle Laboratories now Pfizer Inc. under the trademark Anavar and introduced into the United States in 1964. It is a synthetic anabolic steroid derivative of dihydrotestosterone with an oxygen atom replacing the 2 carbon and methylation in the 17 position.
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