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Fertility preservation in breast cancer with oral progestin: is it an option? A pilot study
Einstein (São Paulo), 2021 Objective To compare the effectiveness of oral progestins and injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist medication in cancer fertility preservation in patients with breast cancer.
Renato de Oliveira +5 more
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The progestin receptor interactome in the female mouse hypothalamus: Interactions with synaptic proteins are isoform specific and ligand dependent [PDF]
, 2017 Progestins bind to the progestin receptor (PR) isoforms, PR-A and PR-B, in brain to influence development, female reproduction, anxiety, and stress. Hormone-activated PRs associate with multiple proteins to form functional complexes. In the present study,
Acharya, Kalpana D +12 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2016 BackgroundUse of menopausal hormonal therapy (MHT)-containing estrogen and a synthetic progestin is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
Noor Asi +7 more
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The use of estrogens and progestins and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
New England Journal of Medicine, 1995 BACKGROUND The effect of adding progestins to estrogen therapy on the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women is controversial. METHODS To quantify the relation between the use of hormones and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, we
G. Colditz +8 more
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Ovarian function during hormonal contraception assessed by endocrine and sonographic markers: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2016 This systematic review focuses on the literature evidence for residual ovarian function during treatment with hormonal contraceptives. We reviewed all papers which assessed residual ovarian activity during hormonal contraceptive use, using endocrine ...
Bastianelli, Carlo +5 more
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Standard and Low-dose Hormone Therapy for Postmenopausal Women—Focus on the Breast
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2007 Menopause occurs naturally when the ovary ceases folliculogenesis, or artificially by surgical and/or medical ablation of the ovarian function. Menopause is a hypoestrogenic state, which may adversely affect estrogen target tissues, such as the brain ...
Peng-Hui Wang +4 more
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Effects of Sex Steroids on Fish Leukocytes
Biology, 2018 In vertebrates, in addition to their classically reproductive functions, steroids regulate the immune system. This action is possible mainly due to the presence of steroid receptors in the different immune cell types.
Elena Chaves-Pozo +2 more
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Effects of sex steroids on thymic epithelium and thymocyte development
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Sex steroid hormones have major effects on the thymus. Age-related increases in androgens and estrogens and pregnancy-induced increases in progestins all cause dramatic thymic atrophy.
Matthew D. Taves +2 more
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Progesterone, Progestins, and the Heart
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2010 All combination hormone replacement regimens contain estrogen and a progestational agent. The Women's Health Initiative trial demonstrated that taking the combination of conjugated estrogen and medroxyprogesterone resulted in a higher risk of myocardial infarction and stroke in the study population.
Gerald M. Pohost, Paula Bernstein
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The other side of progestins: effects in the brain.
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, 2016 Progestins are a broad class of progestational agents widely differing in their chemical structures and pharmacological properties. Despite emerging data suggest that progestins, besides their action as endometrial protection, can also have multiple ...
S. Giatti, R. Melcangi, M. Pesaresi
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