Androgens and male behavior

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 31-40

  Gooren, Louis J G ^a   Kruijver, Frank P M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Androgens; Brain; Gender identity; Sexual differentiation; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPHORIA; FATIGUE; GENDER IDENTITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOOD; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSEXUALISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PARAPHILIAS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 0037203502     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00366-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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