6-Dehydroprogesterone,steroides et progestinus exemplum est progestogenii synthetici qui habent effectus progestationales similes progesterone. Duo communissimi usus progestinorum sunt hormonalium contraconceptionem (aut solus aut estrogen), et ne hyperplasia endometrial in hormone repositum justo estrogenium non opponatur. 6-Dehydroprogesterone primo fuit exemplum progestin, which eventually lead to the current series of progestin contraceptives. 6-Dehydroprogesterone was also found in the defensive secretion of Acilius sulcatus, a species of water beetle.
