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Sex steroids, aka gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate androgen or estrogen receptors. Their effects are mediated by slow genomic mechanisms through nuclear receptors as well as by fast nongenomic mechanisms through membrane-associated receptors and signaling cascades. The term sex hormone is nearly always synonymous with sex steroid.

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Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, ...


Researchers find increased dairy intake reduces risk of uterine fibroids in black women

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based ...


Flaxseed oil and osteoporosis

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Animal studies suggest that adding flaxseed oil to the diet could reduce the risk of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women and women with diabetes, according to a report to be published in the International Journal of Fo ...





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OU Lab 1 of 4 in nation testing new exercise technique

Medicine & Health / Other

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A year ago, Michael Bemben, professor of health and exercise science in the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to formally announce the partnership ...


Most eligible patients miss out on cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most patients with heart failure likely to benefit from a pacemaker including the capacity for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do not receive such an implantable device, reports a national study in the December 2009 ...


Scientists identify natural anti-cancer defenses

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Canadian researchers have discovered a novel molecular mechanism that prevents cancer. In the December 11 edition of the prestigious journal Molecular Cell, scientists from the Université de Montréal and th ...


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...


Woods scandal a boon to Internet publications (AP)

Woods scandal a boon to Internet publications

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Tiger Woods sex scandal has been a boon for online publications, even though it hasn't generated the same amount of Internet traffic as Michael Jackson's death or President Barack Obama's inauguration.


Decline of hormone therapy decreases breast cancer cases, analysis finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The declining use of hormone therapy among women has led to 6,000 fewer invasive breast cancer cases a year, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research quantifies and advances ...


Children's TV has questionable political themes, study shows

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Most parents know to screen television shows for sex, violence or other negative messaging—but what about children's shows themselves?


Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (36) | comments 61

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...


Why King Kong failed to impress

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other apes and primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according ...


Researchers study psychological impact of casual sex

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have found that young adults engaging in casual sexual encounters do not appear to be at increased risk for harmful psychological outcomes as compared to ...



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