Gonadal Steroid Hormones

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A genome-wide association meta-analysis of circulating sex hormone-binding globulin reveals multiple Loci implicated in sex steroid hormone regulation. 
  • A longitudinal study of serum lipoproteins in relation to endogenous reproductive hormones during the menstrual cycle: findings from the BioCycle study. 
  • A pathophysiological study of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. 
  • A pooled multisite analysis of the effects of female reproductive hormones on glioma risk. 
  • Ablation of luteal phase symptoms of Menière's disease with leuprolide. 
  • Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Use Modifies the Sulfation of Sex Hormones. 
  • Actions of steroids in mitochondria. 
  • An overview of the clinical rationale for advancing gender-related psychopharmacology and drug abuse research. 
  • Assessment of sex steroid action in vitro. 
  • Association of sex hormones, aging, and atrial fibrillation in men: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Association of sex steroids, gonadotrophins, and their trajectories with clinical cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in elderly men from the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Associations between brominated flame retardants in house dust and hormone levels in men. 
  • Benign prostatic hypertrophy and uterine leiomyomas: analogous or dissimilar diseases? 
  • Beta-adrenergic receptors: biochemical mechanisms of physiological regulation. 
  • Clinical correlates of sex steroids and gonadotropins in men over the late adulthood: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Coming of age: steroid hormones of wild immature baboons (Papio cynocephalus). 
  • Definition of the cellular mechanisms which distinguish between hormone and antihormone activated steroid receptors. 
  • Determinants of increased energy expenditure in HIV-infected women. 
  • Determination of hormonal steroid concentrations in biological extracts by high resolution mass fragmentography. 
  • Dynamic functional evolution of an odorant receptor for sex-steroid-derived odors in primates. 
  • Effects of castration and chronic steroid treatments on hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone content and pituitary gonadotropins in male wild-type and estrogen receptor-alpha knockout mice. 
  • Effects of gonadectomy in infancy and adulthood on handedness in male and female Mongolian gerbils. 
  • Effects of progesterone and estradiol sex hormones on the release of microparticles by RAW 264.7 macrophages stimulated by Poly(I:C). 
  • Effects of progesterone and estrogen on endothelial dysfunction in porcine coronary arteries. 
  • Effects of testosterone replacement and/or resistance exercise on the composition of megestrol acetate stimulated weight gain in elderly men: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Establishing a link between heart rate and pain in healthy subjects: a gender effect. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of male and female pattern hair loss. 
  • Excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms during the menstrual cycle in healthy women. 
  • Genetic Determinants of Circulating Estrogen Levels and Evidence of a Causal Effect of Estradiol on Bone Density in Men. 
  • Genetic regulation of beta-adrenergic receptors. 
  • Gonadal steroids mediate the opposite changes in cocaine-induced locomotion across adolescence in male and female rats. 
  • Growth and development in children after bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Hormonal modulation of the cutaneous initiation of lordosis in infant and adult rats. 
  • In vitro synthesis of steroids by a feminising adrenocortical carcinoma: effect of prolactin and other protein hormones. 
  • Individual differences in psychostimulant responses of female rats are associated with ovarian hormones and dopamine neuroanatomy. 
  • Ischemic but not thermal pain sensitivity varies across the menstrual cycle. 
  • Life-history correlates of steroid concentrations in wild peripartum baboons. 
  • Liver disease in menopause. 
  • Male germ cells and photoreceptors, both dependent on close cell-cell interactions, degenerate upon ClC-2 Cl(-) channel disruption. 
  • Malignant melanoma and pregnancy. 
  • Mechanism of action of hypothalamic hormones in the anterior pituitary gland and specific modulation of their activity by sex steroids and thyroid hormones. 
  • Molecular determinants of sexual differentiation. 
  • Müllerian inhibiting substance: gene structure and mechanism of action of a fetal regressor. 
  • Not ready for prime time. 
  • Obesity and prostate cancer: collateral damage in the battle of the bulge. 
  • Obesity, body fat distribution, and sex hormones in breast cancer patients. 
  • Olanzapine and clozapine increase the GABAergic neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone in rodents. 
  • Perinatal risk factors in the development of aggression and violence. 
  • Prader Willi Syndrome: Genetics, Metabolomics, Hormonal Function, and New Approaches to Therapy. 
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology of schizophrenia. 
  • Puberty onset of gender differences in rates of depression: a developmental, epidemiologic and neuroendocrine perspective. 
  • Relationship of serum sex-steroid hormones and prostate volume in African American men. 
  • Reproductive endocrine patterns and volatile urinary compounds of Arctictis binturong: discovering why bearcats smell like popcorn. 
  • Reproductive hormone levels in gynecologic oncology patients undergoing surgical castration after spontaneous menopause. 
  • Sex and gender in psychoneuroimmunology research: past, present and future. 
  • Sex differences in cocaine-stimulated motor behavior: disparate effects of gonadectomy. 
  • Sex differences in lower urinary tract biology and physiology. 
  • Sex differences in photoperiodic and stress-induced enhancement of immune function in Siberian hamsters. 
  • Sex hormone changes during weight loss and maintenance in overweight and obese postmenopausal African-American and non-African-American women. 
  • Sex hormones and renal nitric oxide synthases. 
  • Sex related survival differences in instances of melanoma. 
  • Sex steroid hormones enhance immune function in male and female Siberian hamsters. 
  • Sex, ADHD symptoms, and smoking outcomes: an integrative model. 
  • Sex-related differences in clinical drug response: implications for women's health. 
  • Short-chain fatty acids enhance nuclear receptor activity through mitogen-activated protein kinase activation and histone deacetylase inhibition. 
  • Smelling wrong: hormonal contraception in lemurs alters critical female odour cues. 
  • Steroid hormones for contraception in men: systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 
  • Steroidal modulation of steroid secretion in vitro: an experimental approach to intra-follicular regulatory mechanisms. 
  • Stress reactivity and exercise training in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Testosterone-attenuated stereotype and hyperactivity induced by beta-phenylethylamine in pargyline-pretreated rats. 
  • The nonhuman primate model of the relationship between gonadal steroids and coronary heart disease. 
  • The organizational effects of gonadal steroids on sexually dimorphic spatial ability. 
  • Thymic involution and immune reconstitution. 
  • Use of ketoconazole to probe the pathogenetic importance of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D in absorptive hypercalciuria. 
  • Why is female sex an independent predictor of shortened overall survival after proton/photon radiation therapy for skull base chordomas? 
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  Keywords of People

  • McDonnell, Donald Patrick, Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery