Sex, sex hormones and autonomic circulatory control

Sex Hormones and Neuromuscular Control System

Gender, sex hormones and autonomic nervous control of the cardiovascular system.

1. Introduction Differences in the autonomic system may be due to differences in afferent receptor stimulation, in central The autonomic nervous system is of importance in the reflex transmission, in the efferent nervous system and in natural history and treatment of a number of post synaptic signaling. At each of these potential sites of pathophysiological states involving the cardiovascular d...

Sex Hormones and Infertility

The normal physiology of the female reproductive system involves a hypothalamus that secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)in a pulsatile manner, a pituitary gland that can be stimulated by the hypothalamus to regularly secrete both luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), an ovary that has both methodical enzymatic system and steroidogenesis for producing the se...

Sex hormones and hypertension.

Gender has an important influence on blood pressure, with premenopausal women having a lower arterial blood pressure than age-matched men. Compared with premenopausal women, postmenopausal women have higher blood pressures, suggesting that ovarian hormones may modulate blood pressure. However, whether sex hormones are responsible for the observed gender-associated differences in arterial blood ...

Sex hormones and acne.

The skin is an endocrine organ with the expression of metabolizing enzymes and hormone receptors for diverse hormones. The sebaceous gland is the main site of hormone biosynthesis, especially for androgens, and acne is the classical androgen-mediated dermatosis. In sebocytes, conversion of 17-hydroxyprogesterone directly to dihydrotestosterone bypassing testosterone has been demonstrated, while...