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Pregnenolone 3beta-Hydroxypregn-5-en-20-one is an endogenous steroid hormone involved in the steroidogenesis of progestogens mineralocorticoids glucocorticoids androgens and estrogens as well as the neuroactive steroids. As such it is a prohormone though it also has biological effects of its own behaving namely as a neuroactive steroid in its own right with potent anxiolytic effects.[citation needed]
