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Low-dose oral contraceptives reduced hair growth and testosterone levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

The document concludes that antiandrogenic drugs like cyproterone acetate and spironolactone are effective but not permanent treatments for skin-related androgenization in women.

Sebocytes play a key role in controlling androgen levels in human skin.

Steroid 5α-reductase evolved from protists and diversified in eukaryotes, with specific roles in mammals and plants.

Goserelin and oestradiol treatment slightly improved hairiness but did not significantly change sebum production or hair characteristics in mildly hirsute women.

Allopregnanolone helps control oxytocin levels during pregnancy to prevent preterm labor.

A rare ovarian tumor caused early puberty signs in a 1-year-old girl, but surgery reduced hormone levels.

In late pregnancy, allopregnanolone reduces stress responses in rats by affecting brain chemicals.

Progesterone protects brain cells by converting to allopregnanolone and involving GABAA receptors.

Testosterone is important for male sexual traits, reproduction, muscle and bone health, blood production, and metabolism, and works both directly and after being changed into other hormones.

Sex hormones affect reproduction, sexual development, and oral health, and it's important for dental practitioners to understand their effects and interactions.

Certain enzymes react strongly with some hormones in rat skin during hair growth, mainly in sebaceous glands and hair sheaths.

The patient's high testosterone was reduced by a medication that suppresses gonadotropin.

A patient with granuloma annulare experienced both isotopic and isomorphic responses, with skin lesions responding to steroids but relapsing after stopping treatment.

Individuals with this condition often develop male traits and identities at puberty despite being raised as females.

Blocking a specific enzyme in male rat fetuses leads to the development of nipples and feminized genitalia.

Men with baldness have higher levels of specific proteins, suggesting local hormone production may play a role in hair loss.

Rodent models of PCOS show some hormone changes similar to humans, but also have key differences.

A boy's early puberty caused by a testicular tumor returned to normal after surgery.

Dexamethasone may influence hair growth by altering estrogen receptor activity in hair cells.

Monitoring steroid hormones in blood can better detect testosterone doping.

A woman with high testosterone and an adrenal nodule had an ovarian tumor causing her symptoms, which improved after the tumor was removed.

Male hormones control a specific gene in hamster skin, with different hormones having varying effects.

Blocking glucocorticoid receptors improves glucose metabolism in a PCOS mouse model.

5α-reduced neurosteroids may help regulate glial cell differentiation.

Removing both ovaries may better treat increased male hormone levels and related symptoms in postmenopausal women when hormone therapy doesn't work.

New treatments for male hypogonadism are easier to use and target specific tissues to reduce side effects.

PCOS may be influenced by factors in the blood, not just the ovaries.