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The researchers reported that in mice, prolactin signaling in the skin epithelium inhibits hair follicle stem cell activation, promoting quiescence during periods of high serum prolactin like pregnancy and lactation.

In this study, finasteride altered acute ethanol withdrawal severity differently in male and female mice, highlighting sex differences in sensitivity to changes in neurosteroid levels.

This review explores the significant impacts of hormonal changes within normal physiological ranges and suggests examining low-dose effects from chemicals disrupting hormonal activity; it presents no new clinical results.

This review discusses the role of sex hormones in cardiac hypertrophy and notes that estrogen provides protection against hypertrophy in pre-menopausal women, which is reduced after menopause but partially restored with estrogen therapy.

This study suggests that hormonal changes may contribute to the persistent symptoms of long COVID, with specific patterns observed in serum hormone levels related to fatigue and sensory dysfunction.

This study found that hair products commonly used by Black women exhibited hormonal activity, which could impact health outcomes and contribute to health disparities.

This article reviews the use of hormonal therapies in dermatology, specifically focusing on their pathophysiologic rationale, indications, commonly used drugs, and pretreatment evaluations, and it reports no new research findings.

This study found that testosterone and dihydrotestosterone are crucial for synaptic transmission and spine density in male hippocampal neurons, suggesting sex-specific effects of neurosteroids on brain development.

This study found that hormonal antiandrogen acne treatment is associated with shorter antibiotic durations in women, suggesting early initiation may reduce overall antibiotic use.

In this study, gender-affirming hormonal treatment was associated with increased hair growth, acne, and alopecia prevalence in transgender individuals assigned female at birth, while opposite dermatological changes were observed in those assigned male at birth.

This review found that chromium supplementation has limited effects on weight reduction, glucose control, lipid profile, and hormonal balance in women with PCOS, highlighting the need for further research.

This study found that individuals with patterned hair loss, both male and female, showed a slower linear hair growth rate compared to controls with hair of equal thickness.

The study suggests that male pattern baldness, a possible indicator of sex hormone levels, may be linked to an increased risk of gastric cancer in men.

In this study, researchers reported that the SHBG +5790 G>A polymorphism was associated with an increased risk of developing resistance to hormonal castration in advanced prostate cancer patients.

This review found that hormonal therapies, including FDA-approved combined oral contraceptive pills and spironolactone, are effective and well-tolerated treatments for acne vulgaris in adolescents with or without endocrine disorders, providing alternative options to antibiotics.

Small hormonal imbalances can cause significant health problems, so more sensitive testing for hormone-disrupting chemicals is needed.

Finasteride may improve sperm count in subfertile men with low sperm count.

Hormones, especially androgens, play a key role in causing acne, and treatments like hormone control pills and hormone-blocking medications can help.

In this study, researchers found that certain vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms are significantly related to insulin concentration during a glucose tolerance test in young women with hyperandrogenism, but these polymorphisms did not affect bone metabolism or other biochemical parameters.

This study found that among women with PCOS, common skin conditions like hirsutism and acne significantly affect quality of life, particularly impacting social and physical domains as measured by the WHOQOL-BREF.

This review found that hormones significantly impact women's health and athletic performance, influencing the menstrual cycle, menopause, and exercise responses, while therapies like contraception and hormone replacement require personalized approaches to balance benefits and risks.

In this study, researchers found that increased androgen levels, such as testosterone, and insulin resistance are strongly associated with more severe acne in adult women, along with a higher incidence of menstrual irregularities and PCOS characteristics.

This review reports that transgender individuals undergoing hormonal therapy for gender transition face increased risks of cardiovascular disorders, brain tumors, changes in bone density, metabolic disorders, and other health issues, while highlighting the necessity of this therapy for gender transformation.

This source provides a comprehensive overview of amenorrhea, detailing its classification, potential causes such as hormonal imbalances and structural abnormalities, and the various management strategies including hormone therapy and lifestyle modifications tailored to its underlying causes.

This review discusses various sex hormones and related compounds, including estrogens and anabolic steroids, but reports no new findings; it highlights existing literature from 2014 regarding their use and effects.

In this study, testosterone was found to increase the risk of arrhythmias in a rat heart model, while finasteride reduced this arrhythmogenic effect.

This review discusses the indications, contraindications, and potential for using hormonal therapy as a first-line treatment for acne in females, but reports no new clinical results.

This editorial discusses the hormonal basis of catamenial epilepsy, particularly focusing on the roles of progesterone and neurosteroids, and presents no new research findings.

This review discusses the hormonal influences on prostate carcinogenesis and notes ongoing trials investigating whether finasteride could reduce prostate cancer incidence by inhibiting dihydrotestosterone synthesis, but it reports no new results.

This article discusses various hormonal therapies for acne and provides practical treatment guidelines for managing hormonally related acne, but it reports no new research findings.