Girls with this sexual development disorder do not have ovaries, however. Instead, they have what are known as "gonadal ...

In 2002, Dr. Comizzoli joined the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC as a staff scientist to develop new projects of gamete and gonadal tissue cryo-banking ...

Puberty is considered to start when the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus starts releasing a hormone that activates the body's pituitary and gonadal glands. This used to happen around ...

A new Scientific Statement released today by the Endocrine Society highlights research gaps associated with the negative effects of opioid use on the endocrine system.

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble nutrient that plays a crucial role in various bodily functions. But what happens when you don't ...

In animals with oestrous patterns, the female will accept the male only when she is “in heat”, a condition relating temporally to ovulation and the presence of certain gonadal hormones.

"Not that I don't love the movies. It's just, come on guys, there are other stories to tell besides hyper-gonadal males without families doing death-defying things for two hours and wrecking ...

ITDD helps effectively manage chronic pain and spasticity in some patients but requires adherence to best practices and a ...

We are using the slider turtle as a model system for elucidating the physiology underlying sex determination and gonadal differentiation. The results have implications for both the biology and ...

This “endowment” can include recognized medical disorders such as height in Marfan Syndrome and delayed maturation and short stature in gonadal dysgenesis, even simple genetic variation such ...

Organogenesis requires the proper production of diverse cell types and their positioning/migration. However, the coordination of these processes during development remains poorly understood. The gonad ...

LEA-I was defined as: an elevated Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire score, elevated Low Energy Availability (LEA) in Females Questionnaire score, LEA in Males Questionnaire with a focus on ...