US PATENT SUBCLASS 424 / 546
.~.~.~ Sex hormone

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424 /   HD   DRUG, BIO-AFFECTING AND BODY TREATING COMPOSITIONS

520  DF  EXTRACT, BODY FLUID, OR CELLULAR MATERIAL OF UNDETERMINED CONSTITUTION DERIVED FROM ANIMAL IS ACTIVE INGREDIENT {21}
543  DF  .~ Waste or feces (e.g., slaughterhouse offal, chicken feet, horn, hair, hide, urine, etc.) {1}
545  DF  .~.~ Urine {1}
546.~.~.~ Sex hormone

DEFINITION

Classification: 424/546

Sex hormone:

(under subclass 545) Subject matter in which the material is characterized as a sex hormone.

(1) Note. Classification here is proper only if the particular hormone is chemically unidentifiable.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

514, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions,

2+, for sex hormones which are proteins, and subclasses 169+ for those which contain a cyclopentanohydrophenanthrene ring system with such hormones being used as body treating materials.

530, Chemistry: Natural Resins or Derivatives; Peptides or Proteins; Lignins or Reaction Products Thereof, the appropriate subclasses for sex hormones which are proteins.

552, Organic Compounds, 502+, for sex hormones, per se, which are cyclopentanohydrophenanthrene compounds.