Virilization occurs when someone assigned female at birth develops male traits due to high levels of androgen hormones and can be caused by underlying conditions that can include tumors and cancer.

aSchool of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom bSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom ...

Anabolic steroids were a desired product among women athletes, bodybuilders, and the fitness community in building muscles, increasing strength, and losing fat. Steroids were associated with male ...

Virilization is a condition in which females develop male traits such as male pattern baldness or excessive facial hair. It can happen to girls going through puberty and adult women. It also refers to ...

Nandrolone is a type of anabolic steroid. Anabolic steroids include testosterone and lab-grown (synthetic) forms of testosterone. Doctors prescribe anabolic steroids, including nandrolone, to treat ...

In perimenopausal and especially postmenopausal women, rapidly progressing hirsutism and virilization could be a result of ovarian hyperthecosis or androgen-secreting ovarian tumour. The incidence of ...

Premature pubarche (PP), the premature development of pubic hair, is a common presentation in pediatric practice and tends to affect many more girls than boys. PP is defined as pubic or axillary hair ...

1 Department of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China 2 Nanjing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, ...

Schematic representation of steroidogenesis including the classic androgen pathway (dark blue) and the alternative androgen biosynthesis pathway (light blue), both resulting in the synthesis of potent ...