List of androgens and anabolic steroids
This is a list of androgens/anabolic steroids or testosterone derivatives. Androgen esters are mostly not included in this list. The major classes of testosterone derivatives include the following :
- Testosterone derivatives: direct derivatives of testosterone not falling into the groups below
- 4,5α-Reduced/dihydrogenated testosterone derivatives: dihydrotestosterone derivatives
- 19-Demethylated testosterone derivatives: 19-nortestosterone derivatives
- 17α-Alkylated testosterone derivatives: methyltestosterone and ethyltestosterone derivatives
- 17α-Ethynylated/vinylated testosterone derivatives: ethynyltestosterone and vinyltestosterone derivatives
This article pertains to steroidal androgens; nonsteroidal androgens like the selective androgen receptor modulators andarine and enobosarm are not included here.
Natural/endogenous
- Marketed
- * Androstenediol
- * Boldenone *
- * Dehydroepiandrosterone
- * Dihydrotestosterone
- * Nandrolone *
- * Testosterone
- Never marketed
- * 11-Ketodihydrotestosterone
- * 11-Ketotestosterone
- * 11β-Hydroxyandrostenedione
- * 19-Nor-5-androstenediol *
- * Adrenosterone
- * Androstenedione
- * Androsterone
- * Bolandione *
- * Dehydroandrosterone
- * Epiandrosterone
Testosterone derivatives
Non-17α-Alkylated
17α-Alkylated
| Compound | Chemical name | Structure | Marketed | Prohormone-like | Prodrug | |
| Bolasterone | 7α,17α-Dimethyltestosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Calusterone | 7β,17α-Dimethyltestosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone | 4-Chloro-17α-methyl-δ1-testosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Enestebol | 4-Hydroxy-17α-methyl-δ1-testosterone | – | – | – | ||
| Ethyltestosterone | 17α-Ethyltestosterone | – | – | – | ||
| Fluoxymesterone | 9α-Fluoro-11β-hydroxy-17α-methyltestosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Formebolone | 2-Formyl-11α-hydroxy-17α-methyl-δ1-testosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Hydroxystenozole | 17α-Methyl-2'H-androsta-2,4-dienopyrazol-17β-ol | – | – | – | ||
| Metandienone | 17α-Methyl-δ1-testosterone | ✓ | – | – | ||
| Methylclostebol | 4-Chloro-17α-methyltestosterone, | 1α,7α-Diacetylthio-17α-methyltestosterone | ✓ | – | – | |
| Chlorodehydromethylandrostenediol | 4-Chloro-17α-methyl-δ1-4-androstenediol | – | ✓ | – | ||
| Chloromethylandrostenediol | 4-Chloro-17α-methyl-4-androstenediol | – | ✓ | – | ||
| Methandriol | 17α-Methyl-5-androstenediol | ✓ | ✓ | – | ||
| Methyltestosterone 3-hexyl ether | 17α-Methyl-4-hydro-δ3,5-testosterone 3-hexyl ether? | ✓ | – | ✓ | ||
| Penmesterol | 17α-Methyl-4-hydro-δ3,5-testosterone 3-cyclopentyl ether? | ✓ | – | ✓ |
17α-alkenyl and -alkynyl
17α-Ethynylated testosterone derivatives are potent progestins with only very weak androgenic/anabolic activity and are used as oral contraceptives or for the treatment of gynecological conditions in women. They are invariably classified as progestins rather than as AAS. However, these progestins are testosterone derivatives and do have significant androgenic/anabolic activity, sometimes producing acne and other mild androgenic effects in women. Conversely, in men, these drugs may actually have functional antiandrogen effects due to their potent progestogenic and hence antigonadotropic activity and capacity to suppress gonadal testosterone production.Dihydrotestosterone derivatives
Non-17α-Alkylated
17α-Alkylated
19-Nortestosterone (nandrolone) derivatives
Non-17α-alkylated
17α-Alkylated
17α-alkenyl and -alkynyl
The 17α-ethenylated testosterone derivative norvinisterone is much more potent as an AAS than the 17α-ethynylated testosterone derivatives and is intermediate in potency between the 17α-ethynylated progestins and conventional AAS, with approximately one-third and one-fifth of the respective androgenic and anabolic activity of nandrolone in animal bioassays.Vinyltestosterone has been described as a weak AAS, though stronger than its 17α-ethynylated analogue ethisterone.