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and androgens, are two key factors that have been studied extensively ( Simon 2001 ). Postmenopausal women have decreased estrogen levels, and the decline of female hormone has been linked to elevated risk of CVDs in women for years; yet, some clinical
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Introduction Recently, there has been a lot of interest towards the role of androgens in the regulation of follicular development and female fertility. In fact, over the years our understanding of the effects of androgens on follicular development
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androgens, control immune cell function in the womb and how this might affect women’s reproductive health. His lab uses fate-mapping techniques, transcriptomics analysis, multiparameter flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry to characterise the phenotype
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Introduction Androgens are sex steroid hormones that are well known to be crucial for male sexual and reproductive function. In females, androgens play an essential role in ovarian follicular development as testosterone is the obligatory
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, the main androgen in most teleosts) synthesis, started to get expressed in Leydig cells of the testis, and consequently, the androgen level was significantly upregulated in teleost ( Borg 1994 , Kobayashi et al . 1998 , Nakamura et al . 1998
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Introduction There are abundant data that fat mass is negatively regulated by androgens in men. Hypogonadal men with low serum testosterone levels have increased visceral obesity compared to men with normal serum testosterone ( Bhasin et al
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al. 1975 , 1976 ) and dog ( Moskovitz et al. 1987 )). Later studies in rat suggested that part of these effects reflect PG-mediated modulation of Leydig cell steroidogenesis, considering that PDG 2 -promoted while PGF 2α suppressed androgen
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, experimental, and genetic evidence supports the hypothesis that prenatal exposure to excessive maternal androgens induces the PCOS-related phenotype in female offspring ( Xita & Tsatsoulis 2006 , Forsdike et al . 2007 , Abbott et al . 2009 , Roland et al
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Introduction Androgens are pleiotropic hormones which bind with high affinity and specificity to androgen receptors (ARs) to regulate both reproductive and other tissues. In the uterus, androgen-target cells include stromal fibroblasts and
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Testosterone – the primary form of androgen – is synthesized mainly in the gonads and secreted into the bloodstream where it can circulate and exert a number of diverse effects in peripheral target tissues at various locations. After entering the