Androgen
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Broader Terms
androstane compound, sex hormone
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Narrower Terms
androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone, dihydrotestosterone, testosterone
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Androgen is the most potent mitogen to the prostate, playing a central role in normal and abnormal prostate growth.
- Androgens : An androgen is a male hormone.
- Central plus peripheral stimulation by androgen is necessary for complete restoration of copulatory behavior in the male hamster.
- Unaromatized androgen is taken up by the neonatal rat brain: two receptor systems for androgen.
- the source of the androgen is the combined activity of the ovaries and the adrenal glands.
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