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The drug is intended for patients with PSMA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have received one round of androgen receptor pathway inhibitors (ARPIs), a class of drugs used in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer.—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Both visceral and subcutaneous fats also contain the enzyme aromatase, which converts androgens like testosterone into estrogen.—Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025 Researchers unveiled an androgen clock that measures hormone exposure in mice and sheep by examining their DNA and concluded that the more fights a male mouse wins the less essential dopamine becomes to his aggression.—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 This imbalance increases insulin levels, triggering the ovaries to produce more androgens.—Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 8 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for androgen
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The term was apparently introduced in a short article "The Nomenclature of 'Male Hormones'" by the American Medical Society's Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, published in the Journal of the American Medical Society, vol. 107, no. 3 (July 18, 1936), p. 212.
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