LGD-2226 is a selective and orally active androgen receptor modulator (EC50: 0.2 nM, Ki: 1.5 nM for the human androgen receptor). LGD-2226 can be used for muscle wasting, osteoporosis, and sexual dysfunction.
Stampidine can prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1. It exhibited remarkable subnanomolar to low nanomolar in vitro antiretroviral potency against nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistant primary clinical HIV isolates, non-nucleoside RT-re
Ganaplacide is an antimalarials with activity against asexual and sexual blood stages and the preerythrocytic liver stages of malarial parasites. KAF156 showed antimalarial activity without evident safety concerns in a small number of adults with uncompli
Unsaturated, long-chain hydrocarbons are found on the cuticles of insects and can act as pheromones. In mature Drosophila melanogaster, certain cuticular hydrocarbons are sexually dimorphic: males synthesize 23- and 25-C monoenes and females produce 27- and 29-C dienes. Each of these lipids plays specific roles in regulating male sexual behavior, with dienes stimulating courtship. 7(Z),11(Z)-Pentacosadiene is a 25-C hydrocarbon that is found in low abundance on cuticles of mature Drosophila females. Depletion of a female-specific elongase (eloF), which leads to an increase in 7(Z),11(Z)-pentacosadiene along with a parallel decrease in 7,11-nonacosadiene, significantly reduces copulation in Drosophila. This raises the possibility that 7(Z),11(Z)-pentacosadiene may act as an anti-aphrodisiac.