Sex hormones and bone health in males.

Authors :: Carnevale V
Romagnoli E
Cipriani C
Del Fiacco R
Piemonte S
Pepe J
Scillitani A
Minisola S
Source :: Archives of biochemistry and biophysics [Arch Biochem Biophys] 2010 Nov 01; Vol. 503 (1), pp. 110-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Jul 11.
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: Sex steroids play a key role in maintaining skeletal integrity lifelong, through a complex variety of endocrine, but also paracrine and possibly autocrine actions. The current knowledge that androgens may act as pro-hormones for estrogens has seriously challenged many traditional views, so that, at least for their skeletal actions, these can no longer be considered exclusively "male" or "female" hormones.<br /> (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)