Recent Examples on the WebDoctors aren’t sure whether the hormonal dysregulation causes insulin resistance, or whether insulin resistance causes excess androgen hormones.—Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024 Essentially, people with this condition have inherited genes—from either or both of their parents—that are extra sensitive to androgens, hormones that play a major role in regulating hair growth.—Krissy Brady, SELF, 8 Feb. 2024 Secondly, what constituted a PCOS diagnosis wasn’t a doctor’s opinion, but androgen levels and participants’ recollections of their symptoms.—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024 For adults with ovaries, androgen levels remain constant throughout their most of their menstrual cycle.—Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2024 Her body’s complete insensitivity to androgens had left her with a typical female appearance.—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023 Aromatase is an enzyme involved in the conversion of androgens to estrogens.—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023 That tells us androgen therapy and activation of androgen receptors counteracts estrogen receptor signaling.—Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Mar. 2023 Stress: Your body secretes more androgens than usual if you are stressed.—Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
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The term was apparently introduced in a short article "The Nomenclature of 'Male Hormones'" by the American Medical Society's Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, published in the Journal of the American Medical Society, vol. 107, no. 3 (July 18, 1936), p. 212.
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