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Testosterone
  • Action, Deficiency, Substitution
  • 4th edition
  • Edited by Eberhard Nieschlag, Hermann M. Behre
  • Edited in association with Susan Nieschlag
  • Published online:
    05 August 2012
    Print publication:
    26 July 2012
  • Now in its fourth edition Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of information on testosterone and its role in human physiology and pathology. It covers biosynthesis and mechanisms of action and reviews their effects on brain and behavior, spermatogenesis, hair growth, bones, muscles, erythropoiesis, the cardiovascular system and the prostate. The therapeutic uses of testosterone preparations are carefully evaluated as well as its abuse and detection in competitive sport. This new edition also devotes sections to exploring the effects of testosterone on female physiology and sexual function, and the experimental use of testosterone in male hormonal contraception. Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution has been written and edited by world experts in the fields of clinical andrology and endocrinology and provides a unique and invaluable guide for andrologists, endocrinologists, urologists, internists and those working in reproductive medicine.

  • FSH in therapy: physiological basis, new preparations and clinical use

  • Manuela Simoni, Eberhard Nieschlag
  • Journal:
    Reproductive Medicine Review / Volume 4 / Issue 3 / October 1995
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 June 2009, pp. 163-177
    Print publication:
    October 1995

  • Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is a glycoprotein hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that, together with luteinizing hormone (LH), controls development, maturation and function of the gonad. Like the related hormones, LH, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), FSH consists of two polypeptide chains, α and β, bearing carbohydrate moieties N-linked to asparagine (Asn) residues. The α subunit is common to all members of the glycoprotein hormone family, whereas the β subunit, although structurally very similar, differs in each hormone and confers specificity of action.