S Hari Prasad teaches medicinal organic chemistry and organic spectroscopy to post graduate students at the Chemistry Department, Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore. His research includes synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry.

Steroids are solid organic compounds derived from all life forms, including microorganisms, plants and animals. They obtain their generic name ‘steroids’ from Greek: stereos = solid. Steroids encompass a wide variety of compounds of vital importance to life such as sterols, bile acids, sex hormones, anti-inflammatory corticoid hormones, etc. This article highlights some of the important aspects of cholesterol, the principal sterol of higher animals.

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S Hari Prasad
Department of Chemistry
Central College Campus
Bangalore University
Bangalore 560 001, India.
Email: hariprasad@mycatsindia.com