Titlebook: Androgens in Health and Disease; Carrie J. Bagatell (Clinical Assistant Professor), Book 2003 Springer Science+Business Media New York 200

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Androgens and Sexual Function in Men and Womenns in the masculin-ization of certain aspects of behavior is persuasive. Androgenic activation of sexual behavior, the subject of this chapter, is relatively clear for males, but much less clear for females. However, the idea that testosterone (T) is the “libido hormone” for women as well as men has

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Androgen Treatment of the Hypogonadal Male. For example, androgen deficiency of varying degrees is a major manifestation of the Klinefelter syndrome, an XXY chromosomal disorder that affects approx 1 in 500 males .. Testosterone (T)-replacement therapy has proven beneficial effects in androgen-deficient hypogonadal men, and male hypogonadis

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Androgen ActionHBG; 40-50%) and to albumin (50-60%). Normal physiologic levels of circulating testosterone are necessary for adequate androgen biologic activity; however, some actions of androgens within tissues require the local conversion of testosterone to its more biologically active metabolite, DHT. A single

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Androgens and Body Composition effects on body composition in women with hypopituitarism and menopause. This chapter will provide an overview regarding both physiologic and supraphysiologic testosterone administration on body composition in eugonadal and hypogonadal individuals, including those with sarcopenia in the setting of

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Androgens and Sexual Function in Men and Women will then be reviewed, together with a discussion of the key issues in that field. Finally, androgen effects in males and females will be compared and contrasted, and a number of theoretical and explanatory mechanisms proposed.

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Androgens and Cognitionll examine the relationship of androgens and cognition in humans, including endogenous levels and studies examining hormone manipulation in healthy young and older populations. Finally, we will examine the relationship between androgens and cognition as expressed through endocrine disorders that res