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Hormone therapy affects hair growth in transgender individuals, with testosterone potentially causing hair loss in trans men and estrogen reducing facial/body hair in trans women; treatment options vary.

Insulin-sensitizing drugs like metformin can help with ovulation, weight loss, and lower testosterone in some women with PCOS.

5-alpha-reductase inhibitors may cause a low incidence of erectile dysfunction that decreases over time.

Testosterone therapy may slightly improve sexual function in postmenopausal women, but its long-term safety is unknown.

Steroidogenic isoenzymes may help improve treatments for common hair loss.

Continuous light exposure in rats leads to PCOS-like symptoms and suggests sleep habits might affect the disorder's development.

Progesterone and related compounds may help control seizures linked to the menstrual cycle but have limitations that need addressing.

Steroids, particularly estrogens and 5α-reductase inhibitors, affect blood vessel-related hair growth processes in hair follicle cells.

Five preservatives may disrupt hormone function and need more health and environmental risk assessment.

SHBG binding properties are unchanged in male liver cirrhosis patients.

New treatments for hair loss show promise, especially finasteride for men and a stronger minoxidil formula.

Prenatal stress changes how male and female rats enjoy rewards differently, linked to sex hormones.

Hirsute women have lower type 2 17β-HSD enzyme levels, which improve with treatment.

Women generally handle heart enlargement better than men, but it's riskier for them if it occurs; hormones like estrogen offer some protection.

Dutasteride protects dopamine neurons in Parkinson's mice, but Finasteride doesn't.

Testosterone therapy and surgeries like mastectomy improve transgender men's lives and mental health with low risks and high satisfaction.

Spironolactone may effectively treat female hair loss, especially with hyperandrogenism signs.

Finasteride worsens seizures in epilepsy rats and speeds up epileptogenesis in mice.

A teenage girl with high androgen levels and PCOS developed a rare liver tumor, suggesting a possible link between high androgens and the tumor's growth.

Leptin helps start the growth phase of hair.

Hormonal imbalances, often indicating conditions like PCOS, are common in women with hard-to-treat acne, and a treatment approach addressing these imbalances may be needed.

Women's ovarian hormones and adrenal androgens change throughout life, affecting hair loss and health.

Betacoronaviruses, like COVID-19, may cause hormone system dysfunction and affect disease susceptibility and severity.

Hormone therapy with estradiol and spironolactone can regrow scalp hair in transgender women by lowering testosterone to female levels.

New male hormonal contraceptives show promise but need more research on long-term effects and funding for larger trials.

Testosterone increases certain proteins in the uterus, reducing fluid volume.

Men with early-onset baldness have a higher chance of heart disease and clogged arteries.

Sex hormones affect hair and feather growth and may help manage alopecia and hormone-dependent cancers.

New pregnane derivatives are effective at inhibiting an enzyme linked to hair loss and reducing oil gland activity.

Sex neurosteroids cause different effects on hippocampal synaptic plasticity in males and females.