The emancipation of testosterone from niche hormone to multi-system player

It is no exaggeration to say that our conceptualization of the (patho-) physiological functions of testosterone has undergone a revolutionary development over the last three decades. The traditional thinking was that the biological functions of testosterone were restricted mainly to the area of repr...

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Autor principal: Saad, Farid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4291879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25248654
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.137684
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spelling pubmed-42918792015-01-15 The emancipation of testosterone from niche hormone to multi-system player Saad, Farid Asian J Androl Invited Opinion It is no exaggeration to say that our conceptualization of the (patho-) physiological functions of testosterone has undergone a revolutionary development over the last three decades. The traditional thinking was that the biological functions of testosterone were restricted mainly to the area of reproduction and male sexuality. However, scientific research has clearly demonstrated that testosterone is a multi-system hormone serving a wide range of hitherto unsuspected biological functions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 2014-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4291879/ /pubmed/25248654 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.137684 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Andrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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