News tagged with male hormones
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Neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Women are not from Venus any more than men are from Mars. But even though both sexes are perfectly terrestrial beings, they are not lacking in other differences. And not only in their reproductive organs ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Testosterone directly amplifies but does not program male behaviors
New research uncovers some surprising information about how sex hormones control masculinization of the brain during development and drive gender related behaviors in adult males. The study, published by Cell Press in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Researchers reveal first autism candidate gene that demonstrates sensitivity to sex hormones
George Washington University researcher, Dr. Valerie Hu, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and her team at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, have found that male and female sex hormones regulate expression ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Hormone treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia in baby girls spurs debate
\Each year in the United States, perhaps a few dozen pregnant women learn they are carrying a fetus at risk for a rare disorder known as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The condition causes an accumulation of male hormones ...
Aug 15, 2010 |
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New targeted therapy effective in treating advanced prostate cancer
An experimental drug is showing promise for the treatment of men with an aggressive form of advanced prostate cancer. A new multicenter study has concluded that the targeted therapy MDV3100 is safe and effective for patients ...
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Scientists find key protein that suppresses prostate cancer growth in the laboratory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer researchers have discovered an important protein, produced naturally inside cells, that appears to suppress the growth of prostate cancer cells in the laboratory. The findings, published ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Some males react to competition like bonobos, others like chimpanzees
The average man experiences hormone changes similar to the passive bonobo prior to competition, but a "status-striving" man undergoes changes that mirror those found in a chimpanzee, say researchers from Duke and Harvard ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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New study bolsters case for preventive prostate cancer treatment
For the last six years, doctors have faced a dilemma about whether to treat men at risk of prostate cancer with the drug finasteride. On one hand, the drug had been shown to prevent cancer in about one of every four patients ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Gender-bending fish problem in Colorado creek mitigated by treatment plant upgrade
Male fish are taking longer to be "feminized" by chemical contaminants that act as hormone disrupters in Colorado's Boulder Creek following the upgrade of a wastewater treatment plant in Boulder in 2008, according ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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The making of the male brain (estrogen required)
Territorial behavior in male mice might be linked to more "girl-power" than ever suspected, according to new findings at UCSF. For the first time, researchers have identified networks of nerve cells in the brain that are ...
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Prostate cancer study's dramatic results
(PhysOrg.com) -- The risk of death for men suffering from locally advanced or high-risk prostate cancer could be dramatically cut, according to a new international study involving Cardiff University.
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Elaborate plumage due to testosterone?
(PhysOrg.com) -- In many bird species males have a more elaborate plumage than females. This elaborate plumage is often used to signal body condition, to intimidate rivals or to attract potential mates. In ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Widespread occurrence of intersex bass found in US Rivers
Intersex in smallmouth and largemouth basses is widespread in numerous river basins throughout the United States is the major finding of the most comprehensive and large-scale evaluation of the condition, ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have higher BPA blood levels
Women with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common hormone imbalance in women of reproductive age, may be more vulnerable to exposure to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic household items, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 21, 2010 |
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