DSDs: genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Measurement of psychosexual differentiation.
Since the early 1990s, there has been a surge in interest in the study of infants, children, adolescents, and adults with physical intersex conditions or other congenital conditions that affect, among other things, the configuration of the external genitalia. Regarding psychologic evaluation, an important aspect of both short-term and long-term outcome concerns gender differentiation. This arti...
متن کاملPsychosexual Differentiation in the Human1
This review presents the major findings in studies on humans of chromosomal, gonadal, prenatal hormonal and environmental contributions to sex dimorphic behaviors. The hypotheses derived from these studies are evaluated. Findings relevant to possible biological antecedents in the formation of gender identity, gender role behaviors, sexual orientation and “parenting” behaviors are reviewed and c...
متن کاملThe biology of human psychosexual differentiation.
Most attempts to identify biological underpinnings of gender identity and sexual orientation in humans have investigated effects of sex steroids, so pivotal in the differentiation of the genitalia, showing strong parallels between animals and the human. The information on humans is derived from the so-called 'experiments of nature', clinical entities with a lesser-than-normal androgen exposure ...
متن کاملPneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics
Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...
متن کاملConsensus on pneumococcal vaccination in adults with underlying pathologies
4. Polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23), used in subjects older than 2 years since decades ago, includes a greater number of serotypes (23), but it does not generate immune memory, antibody levels decrease with time, causes an immune tolerance phenomenon, have no effect on nasopharyngeal colonization and has not shown vaccine effectiveness in these risk groups in the United Kingdom despite a 75% of v...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Endocrinology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1759-5029,1759-5037
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.130