News tagged with male hormones

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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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Random DNA mix-ups not so random in cancer development

Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Family composition determines success of great tit parents

Great tits who have as many sons as daughters acquire more grandchildren than great tits with an uneven family composition. That is because their children are reproductively more successful concludes NWO researcher Reinder ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Genetic alteration linked with human male infertility

One in seven couples worldwide has difficulty conceiving a child, and male infertility is thought to account for nearly half of those cases. Although the cause of male infertility is often unknown, scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Male sex hormones in ovaries essential for female fertility

Male sex hormones, such as testosterone, have well defined roles in male reproduction and prostate cancer. What may surprise many is that they also play an important role in female fertility. A new study finds that the presence ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Does a man's estrogen level impact his risk of prostate cancer?

A high level of one type of estrogen in a man's body might increase his risk of developing prostate cancer. That is one surprising conclusion from a new study which also offers another novel finding - that high levels of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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