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This review discusses the complexities in diagnosing polycystic ovary syndrome and emphasizes the need for individualized assessment based on each patient's specific symptoms and history, but reports no new results.

This case study reported that glucocorticoid treatment markedly improved all clinical features in a girl with generalized komuragaeri disease, suggesting potential autoimmune involvement in the disease's pathogenesis.

This paper reviews seven major systemic causes of hair loss and provides a clinical evaluation framework but reports no new experimental results.

This review discusses the potential link between long-term transdermal exposure to sex hormones from antiperspirants and increased breast and prostate cancer rates, calling for further research to confirm this theory.

This paper examines how societal constructs of gender influence the treatment of idiopathic hirsutism in women, emphasizing the impact of perceived femininity on psychological stress and commercial depilatory actions.

This review discusses ovarian hyperthecosis as a rare cause of androgenetic alopecia in postmenopausal women and reports no new results; the authors highlight the need to explore its relationship to alopecia further.

This case report discusses chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis with autoimmune and immune deficiencies in candidiasis-endocrinopathy syndrome, noting associated alopecia areata, ineffective topical immunotherapy, and asplenia.

This study found that asebic mice exhibit abnormal sebaceous gland differentiation and insufficient sebum production due to defective regulation of cell processes, despite possessing normally developing sebaceous glands initially.

The document explains various skin conditions in cats and how to diagnose and treat them.

Hair can indicate early signs of metabolic disorders, with issues like protein deficiency stopping hair growth.

This review emphasizes the importance of considering race and ethnicity-specific factors in diagnosing and treating polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and calls for diagnostic criteria tailored to these differences.

This study found that oral minoxidil improved hair density in women experiencing late alopecia due to chemotherapy and/or endocrine therapy, with 74% showing clinical improvement and statistically significant increases in hair shaft density reported in those assessed with trichoscopy.

This review discusses the evidence for using oral medications to treat central serous chorioretinopathy, highlighting eplerenone as having the most support despite a lack of robust efficacy across studies.

This article reviews current evaluation and treatment options for androgenic alopecia in women and reports no new clinical results.

In this study, trichostasis spinulosa was observed in 51 patients with lesions on the nose, where some follicles contained up to 86 hairs each, possibly influenced by endocrine factors and actinic rays.

This study reviewed the physiological and psychological impacts of acne vulgaris, highlighting its complex interactions with endocrine issues, sebum production, and immune response, while suggesting that a multidisciplinary approach can inform future treatments and improve quality of life for those affected.

This review discusses the use of human and animal-derived placental and umbilical extracts in cosmetics, highlighting insufficient data to establish their safety and recommending they should not have metabolic or endocrine activity.

In this study, silver foxes given a yeast "filtrate factor" supplement retained their fur and normal pelts, while those without it experienced fur loss and thymus abnormalities.

This study found that inhibiting 5α-reductase in molluscs provokes a specific shell morphology, suggesting gastropods might have unique 5α-reductase substrates absent in vertebrates.

This case report describes a 9-year-old Thai girl with Satoyoshi syndrome, where oral corticosteroid therapy significantly improved her painful muscle spasms and alopecia.

This report on a 37-year-old patient found that trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type I is associated with hair abnormalities, including fine and brittle hair with altered biomechanical properties, but no treatment exists for the hair defects.

This article discusses treatments for male pattern baldness, noting that minoxidil is effective for improving baldness at the scalp vertex in young men, and reports no new clinical results.

Environmental factors like temperature and nutrition affect hair growth, with humans showing seasonal hair growth differences.

In this study, researchers found that human ovaries at different life stages biosynthesize both canonical and non-canonical steroid hormones, with fetal ovaries showing higher enzyme activity related to estradiol and testosterone conversion compared to adult tissues.

This study found that age-related fluctuations in hormones and endocannabinoids in male C57BL/6 mice showed specific patterns, with peak values observed around 2.7 to 3.4 months, with these patterns seen in both plasma and hair but with different magnitudes.

This review explores whether oligomenorrhoea in exercising women is a mild subclinical phenotype of PCOS or part of a spectrum of energy deficiency-related menstrual disturbances, without new clinical results.

This review discusses the relationship between acne, body hair, and androgenic stimulation in adolescent girls, emphasizing treatment decisions based on disease severity rather than endocrine findings.

This review discusses the molecular differences between male and female responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and highlights the lack of specific guidelines for altering sex-specific COVID-19 prognoses.

This study suggests that inhibitors of steroidogenic enzymes may have therapeutic potential for certain behavioral disorders linked to dopaminergic hyperfunction, despite concerns about their endocrine impacts.

This review discusses the potential of follicular drug delivery systems to target the pilosebaceous unit and reports no new research findings.