dihydrotestosterone in English

noun
1
a male sex hormone that is the active form of testosterone, formed from testosterone in bodily tissue.
It also turns the hormone testosterone into dihydrotestosterone , which effects male sexual characteristics.

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1. Today we know that Castration prevents the formation of dihydrotestosterone

2. Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone act as the predominant Androgens in mammals.

3. The oxidoreductase activity can convert 3 alpha-adiol to dihydrotestosterone, while the epimerase activity can convert Androsterone to epi-Androsterone

4. Androsterone is also part of the "backdoor pathway" from allopregnanolone to dihydrotestosterone, which has importance in certain disease states.

5. After treatment, the wet weight of prostate gland was detected, and the serum levels of testosterone (T) and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) were examined with radioimmunoassay method.

6. Anabolic steroids, officially known as Anabolic–androgen steroids or colloquially simply as “steroids,” are drugs which mimic the effects of the male sex hormones testosterone and dihydrotestosterone

7. AntiAndrogens, also known as Androgen antagonists or testosterone blockers, are a class of drugs that prevent Androgens like testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) from mediating their biological effects in the body

8. Other names: Androgen antagonists, Androgen receptor blockers, testosterone blockers What are AntiAndrogens? AntiAndrogens are the name given to a diverse group of medicines that counteract the effects of the male sex hormones, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone.

9. In the case of the AD tumour cell line nuclei prepared by the CPC method, both the affinity of the nuclei for dihydrotestosterone and the number of uptake sites were reduced when compared with AD tumour cell line nuclei prepared by the modified Triton N-101 method.

10. The effects of in vitro addition of prolactin (50 μg/ml) upon the conversion of testosterone to 5α dihydrotestosterone (5α DHT) and 5α androstanediol by incubates of rat mammary carcinomas have been investigated.The studies have been performed on (a) primary Adenocarcinomata induced by the carcinogen 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA) in female Sprague-Dawley rats, and (b) …