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Review
. 2010 Nov 1;503(1):110-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.07.001. Epub 2010 Jul 11.

Sex hormones and bone health in males

Vincenzo Carnevale  1 , Elisabetta Romagnoli, Cristiana Cipriani, Romano Del Fiacco, Sara Piemonte, Jessica Pepe, Alfredo Scillitani, Salvatore Minisola
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Sex hormones and bone health in males

Vincenzo Carnevale et al. Arch Biochem Biophys. .

Abstract

Sex steroids play a key role in maintaining skeletal integrity lifelong, through a complex variety of endocrine, but also paracrine and possibly autocrine actions. The current knowledge that androgens may act as pro-hormones for estrogens has seriously challenged many traditional views, so that, at least for their skeletal actions, these can no longer be considered exclusively "male" or "female" hormones.

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