Sex hormone
type of steroid hormone
Sex hormones, also called sex steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with androgen or estrogen receptors.[1]
The non-steroid luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone are usually not regarded as sex hormones, although they play major sex-related roles.
Natural sex steroids are made by the gonads (ovaries or testes),[2] by adrenal glands, or by conversion from other sex steroids in tissues such as liver or fat.[3]
References
change- ↑ Guerriero G. 2009 (2009). "Vertebrate sex steroid receptors: evolution, ligands, and neurodistribution". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1163 (1): 154–168. Bibcode:2009NYASA1163..154G. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04460.x. PMID 19456336. S2CID 5790990.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Brook C.G. 1999. (1999). "Mechanism of puberty". Hormone Research. 51 Suppl 3 (3): 52–54. doi:10.1159/000053162. PMID 10592444. S2CID 33671883.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Catherine Panter-Brick & Agustín Fuentes 2011. "Glossary". Health, risk, and adversity - Volume 2 of Studies of the Biosocial Society. Berghahn Books. p. 280.
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