Assessing Prenatal and Neonatal Gonadal Steroid Exposure for Studies of Human Development: Methodological and Theoretical Challenges

• मुख्य लेखक: Rebecca Christine Knickmeyer (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Bonnie Auyeung (auth), Marsha L. Davenport (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• श्रृंखला: Frontiers Research Topics
• विषय: Medicine; minipuberty; Testosterone; androgen receptor; digit ratio; prenatal; sexual differentiation; umbilical cord blood; Opposite-sex twins; Saliva; Hypogonadism
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

There is extensive evidence from animal models that gonadal steroids, produced in fetal and neonatal life, act on the developing organism to produce sex differences far beyond the reproductive system. That early gonadal steroid exposure also plays an important role in human development is supported...