Estradiol (medication)
, estradiol is available in the United States in the following forms:Oral estradiol valerate (Progynova) and other esters of estradiol that are used by injection like estradiol benzoate, estradiol enantate, and estradiol undecylate all are not marketed in the U.S. Polyestradiol phosphate (Estradurin) was marketed in the U.S. previously but is no longer available.
Estriol (medication)
Estriol is an estrogen, or an agonist of the estrogen receptors, ERα and ERβ. It has been found to possess 11–14% and 18–21% of the relative binding affinities of estradiol for the human ERα and ERβ, respectively, while its relative transactivational capacities at these receptors were 11% and 17%, respectively. In addition to being a ligand of the classical nuclear ERs, estriol is an antagonist of the GPER, a membrane estrogen receptor, at high concentrations. This is in contrast to estradiol, which is an agonist of this receptor. Like other estrogens, estriol does not importantly interact with other steroid hormone receptors.