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Hormesis and Female Sex Hormones

Pharmaceuticals, 2011
Hormone replacement after menopause has in recent years been the subject of intense scientific debate and public interest and has sparked intense research efforts into the biological effects of estrogens and progestagens.
Elvar Theodorsson, Jakob O. Strom, Annette Theodorsson   +2 more
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Sex hormones affect the pathogenesis and clinical characteristics of systemic lupus erythematosus

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects women more frequently than men, similar to the female predilection for other autoimmune diseases. Moreover, male patients with SLE exhibit different clinical features than female patients.
Ji-Won Kim, Hyoun-Ah Kim, Chang-Hee Suh, Chang-Hee Suh, Ju-Yang Jung   +4 more
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Hemostasis and female sex hormones

Репродуктивная эндокринология, 2018
The review considers modern concepts of the pathogenesis of coagulation disorders in women and the participation of endogenous and exogenous sex steroids in it.
О. А. Ефименко, И. А. Родионова   +1 more
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Digit Ratio (2D:4D): A Biomarker for Prenatal Sex Steroids and Adult Sex Steroids in Challenge Situations [PDF]

, 2014
Digit ratio (2D:4D) denotes the relative length of the second and fourth digits. This ratio is considered to be a biomarker of the balance between fetal testosterone (T) and estrogen (E) in a narrow window of early ontogeny.
Liam Kilduff, Cook, C., Liam eKilduff, Bernhard Fink, Blair Crewther, Cristian eCook, Bernhard eFink, Fink, B., Crewther, B.T., Manning, J., Christian Cook, Manning, John, Kilduff, Liam P, John eManning, John Manning, Cook, Christian, Fink, Bernhard, Blair eCrewther, Manning, John T., Kilduff, Liam, Crewther, Blair   +20 more
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Sex steroids, growth factors and mammographic density: a cross-sectional study of UK postmenopausal Caucasian and Afro-Caribbean women. [PDF]

, 2009
INTRODUCTION: Sex steroids, insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and prolactin are breast cancer risk factors but whether their effects are mediated through mammographic density, one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer, is unknown.
Isabel dos Santos Silva, Dowsett, Mitch, Folkerd, Elizabeth, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, McCormack, VA, Folkerd, E, Perry, Nicholas M, Nichola Johnson, Ben Coupland, Elizabeth Folkerd, Johnson, Nichola, Vinnicombe, Sarah J, Coupland, Ben, Claire Palles, Sarah J Vinnicombe, Palles, C, Jeff M Holly, Coupland, B, Palles, Claire, Holly, Jeff M, Dowsett, M, Johnson, N, dos Santos Silva, I, Valerie A McCormack, Holly, JMP, Vinnicombe, SJ, Mitch Dowsett, McCormack, Valerie A, Perry, NM, Nicholas M Perry   +29 more
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Sex Differences in Diabetes- and TGF-β1-Induced Renal Damage

Cells, 2020
While females are less affected by non-diabetic kidney diseases compared to males, available data on sex differences in diabetic nephropathy (DN) are controversial.
Nadja Ziller, Roland Kotolloshi, Mohsen Esmaeili, Marita Liebisch, Ralf Mrowka, Aria Baniahmad, Thomas Liehr, Gunter Wolf, Ivonne Loeffler   +8 more
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Psychoneuroendocrine protocol to comprehensively study sexually dimorphic cognition

Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021
Background: A large body of research provides evidence for sex differences in cognitive abilities. These sex differences stem from the interplay between biological sex (e.g., birth-assigned sex, sex hormones) and psychosocial gender (e.g., gender ...
Sarah Kheloui, Mathias Rossi, Silke Jacmin-Park, Ophélie Larocque, Morgan Vallée, Philippe Kerr, Olivier Bourdon, Robert-Paul Juster   +7 more
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Sex, hormones, and lung health. [PDF]

Physiol Rev
Sex plays an essential role as a biological variable in lung health, leading to observed differences in lung disease susceptibility. Some respiratory conditions are more common in women than men, especially after puberty, indicating the influence of ...
Silveyra P, Babayev M, Ekpruke CD.
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Peripheral vs. central sex steroid hormones in experimental Parkinson’s disease [PDF]

, 2011
The nigrostriatal dopaminergic (NSDA) pathway degenerates in Parkinson’s disease (PD), which occurs with approximately twice the incidence in men than women.
McArthur, S, Gillies, G.E., Glenda E. Gillies, Glenda E Gillies, McArthur, S., Simon McArthur, Simon eMcArthur, Gillies, GE   +7 more
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Neuroprotective and neurotoxic outcomes of androgens and estrogens in an oxidative stress environment

Biology of Sex Differences, 2020
Background The role of sex hormones on cellular function is unclear. Studies show androgens and estrogens are protective in the CNS, whereas other studies found no effects or damaging effects.
Phong Duong, Mavis A. A. Tenkorang, Jenny Trieu, Clayton McCuiston, Nataliya Rybalchenko, Rebecca L. Cunningham   +5 more
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