Women are more sensitive to cocaine craving elicited by stimuli associated with relapse.
Ovarian hormones modulate cocaine craving and may therefore function as risk factors or …

Like Darwin's tangled bank of biodiversity, the endocrine mechanisms that give rise to
phenotypic diversity also exhibit nearly endless forms. This tangled bank of mechanistic …

The acute glucocorticoid response is a key mediator of the coordinated vertebrate response
to unpredictable challenges. Rapid glucocorticoid increases initiate changes that allow …

Introduction Gender incongruence (GI) is characterized by a marked incongruence between
an individual's experienced/expressed gender and the assigned sex at birth. It includes …

Vertebrate genomes contain six evolutionarily related nuclear receptors (NRs) for steroid
hormones: two for estrogens (estrogen receptors ERα and ERβ) and one each for …

This short review focuses on the mechanisms of action of brain derived estrogens, also
called neuroestrogens, on male sexual behavior, one of the best characterized examples of …

Estrogen and testosterone are typically thought of as gonadal or adrenal derived steroids
that cross the blood brain barrier to signal via both rapid nongenomic and slower genomic …

Abstract The South American weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum, displays territorial
aggression year-round in both sexes. To examine the role of rapid androgen modulation in …

The activation of male sexual behavior depends on brain estrogen synthesis. Estrogens act
through nuclear and membrane receptors producing effects within hours/days or …

The main neuroendocrine pathways of induction of reproductive behavior in fish are
elucidated. 17α, 20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17, 20β-DHP), an oocyte maturation …