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1
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What is sexual differentiation in mammals driven by?

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The presence of androgens in males and their decreased amounts in females.

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What do androgens have a big impact on? Example

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The developing fetus.

- Eg. Secondary sexual characteristics

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How does WHO define gender?

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Refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

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What 2 factors have a big effect on what we refer to as gender?

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  1. Environment

2. Society

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What are 2 examples of sex categories?

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  1. Male

2. Female

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What are 2 examples of gender categories?

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  1. Masculine

2. Feminine

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What aspects of sex will/ will not vary substantially?

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  1. Will not = aspects between different human societies

2. Will = aspects of gender

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What happens if you change the receptor for gonadal differentiation?

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The you change the presentation of the phenotype that would be displayed

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What is helpful in chromosomal gene/region ID

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FISH

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SRY

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Sex-determining region Y protein

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What is SRY?

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It is a DNA binding protein

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What does SRY initiate?

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Testes

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What is SF-1 important for? (4)

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  1. Gonadal and adrenal development
  2. Reproduction
  3. Anti-mullerian hormone
  4. Phenotypic presentation
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SF-1

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Steroidogenic factor 1

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What are 2 potential problems that mutations in SF-1 can create?

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  1. Adrenal insufficiency 46XY females (low androgens)

2. Gonadal dysgenesis

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What can mutations in SF-1 lead to? (3)

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  1. Lack of development of a reproductive system
    - eg) testes and ovaries
  2. High risk for cancer
  3. Problems with production on hormones or change in receptor
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What is the default with the absence of androgens in the early stages of development?

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Females

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What does translocation/mutation of SRY lead to? (2)

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  1. 46XX males

2. 46XY females

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What 2 factors influence testicular and ovarian differentiation?

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Combination of…

  1. Hormones
  2. Environmental
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What is the unique characteristic of undifferentiated gonads?

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Having the potential to form either of 2 organs: testes or ovaries

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How many genes are there that regulate sex differentiation?

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More than 50

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What do sex differentiation genes encode? (4)

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  1. Transcription factors
  2. Gonadal steroids
  3. Peptide hormones
  4. Tissue-specific receptors
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What are mullerian ducts?

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They are paired ducts of the embryo that run down the lateral sides of the urogenital ridge

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What do mullerian ducts give rise to?

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Fallopian tubes

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How are fallopian tubes developed? (2)

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  1. In the presence of estrogen

2. Lack of androgens

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What is formed in the female with the presence of estrogen and lack of androgens? (3)

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  1. Fallopian tubes
  2. Uterus
  3. Upper portion of the vagina
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What is the Wolffian duct?

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Is a paired organ also found in humans during embryogenesis that is developed when exposed to testosterone

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What does the wolffian duct develop into when exposed to testosterone or increase in androgens? (3) What takes place here?

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  1. Epididymis
  2. Vas deferens
  3. Seminal vesicle
    - -> Spermatogenesis takes place here
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What is spermatogenesis?

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Is the process in which spermatozoa are produced from spermatogonial stem cells by way of mitosis and meiosis

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What is critical that the wolffian ducts most be exposed to during embryogenesis?

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Testosterone

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What family is anti-mullerian hormone part of?

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Transforming growth factor beta family

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What are anti-mullerian hormones produced by?

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Sertoli cells

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What controls stabilization of wolffian ducts?

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Leydig cells

34
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Where does the mammalian gonad form? And whats the result?

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On the surface of the mesonephros within the genital ridge

- As a result of proliferation of the coelomic epithelium

35
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What does testicular differentiation come before?

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Ovarian differentiation

36
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What is an example of a lack of ability for reproductive development in females?

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Amenorrhea

37
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What is amenorrhea?

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Lack of menstrual cycle after age 16 or having 3 missed periods

38
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What is amenorrhea a possible sign of? (3)

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  1. Genetic abnormalities
  2. Endocrine abnormalities
  3. Anatomic abnormalities
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What kind of deficiency is Kallmann’s syndrome?

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GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone)

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What is Kallmann’s syndrome? (3)

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  • Failure to start or complete puberty
  • No mirgration of GnRH producing cells or olfactory neurons to the hypothalamus
  • -> no sexual maturity or smell
  • Most common genetic from of isolated gonadotropin deficiency
41
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What are 3 examples of amenorrhea?

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  1. Kallmann’s syndrome
  2. Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea
  3. Hyperprolactinemia
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What is functional hypothalamic amenorrhea?

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  • Reduced GnRH pulse frequency and amplitude
  • -> low FSH and LH, leptin implicated (low levels), minor activation of HPA axis and incidences of psychological stress, strenuous exercise or poor nutrition precede
  • One of the most common types of amenorrhea
  • Endocrine disorder
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FHA

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Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea

44
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FSH

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Follicle stimulating hormone

45
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LH

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Luteinizing hormone

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HPA axis

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Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

47
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What is hyperprolactinemia

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  • Usually dopamine not inhibiting prolactin release, a common cause (25%)
  • Most common cause of amenorrhea
  • High levels of prolactin that should be monitored and controlled by dopamines
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What is the average age menopause begins?

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51

49
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What is menopause?

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Ovary ceases to function

50
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What can menopause lead to? (2)

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  1. Hot flashes

2. Urogenital atrophy

51
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What are effects that happen during the later stages of menopause? (3)

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  1. Osteoporosis
  2. Cardiovascular disease
  3. Psychological health issues
    - -> eg) insomnia, fatigue, memory and depression
52
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Hypogonadism

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Diminished functional activity of the gonads that may result in diminished sex hormone biosynthesis

53
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What are 4 side effects for not getting enough androgens?

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  1. Lack of facial hair and other secondary sex characteristics
  2. Anemia
  3. Decrease in bone mass
  4. Fine wrinkles
54
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What are 3 examples of a lack of reproductive conditions?

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  1. Hypogonadism
  2. Klinefelters syndrome
  3. Turners syndrome
55
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What is klinefelters syndrome?

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Is a gonadal dysgenesis that is due to low testosterone and androgens –> in males

  • Male XXY = chromosomal abnormality
  • Rare = 1/500 males
  • Most common form of male hypogonadism
  • High quality of life
56
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What is tuner’s syndrome?

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Is a gonadal dysgenesis that is due to almost no estrogen or progesterone –> in females

  • Female X0
  • 1/500 females
  • Low quality of life
57
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What are 4 development problems associated with turners syndrome?

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  1. Short
  2. Web neck
  3. Hearing loss
  4. Kidney loss of function
58
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Is klinefelters syndrome and turners syndrome treatable?

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Yes, both treatable with hormones for secondary sexual characteristics

59
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What is a problem that will never change in turners and klinefelters syndrome?

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Will always be infertile

60
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What is another word for a female 46XX DSD?

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Intersex (pseudohermaphrodism)

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What is female 46XX DSD caused by?

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Exposure to too much androgens in the early stages of development
- 1/16,000

62
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What does early exposure to androgens not produce?

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No ovaries

63
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What is another word for intersex 46XY

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Male psuedohermaphrodism

64
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What is intersex 46XY?

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Having testes but genital ducts or external genitalia not fully masculinized

65
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What defect does intersex 46XY have?

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Defect in testosterone secretion

  • -> Impaired testosterone or mullerian inhibitor factor secretion
  • No testosterone –> DHT
  • -> but also lacks 5α- reductase
66
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What is another word for androgen insensitivity (resistance) syndrome?

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Complete 46XY

67
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What are the effects of AIS? (4)

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  1. Testes
  2. Absence of wolffian ducts
  3. Female appearing external genitalia
  4. Androgen receptor mutation
68
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AIS

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Androgen insensitivity syndrome

69
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What happens at puberty in AIS? (4)

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  1. Female secondary sexual characteristics
  2. No occurrence of the menstrual cycle
  3. Increase in LH
  4. Increase in testosterone and estradiol (peripheral and testes)
70
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What are 3 side effects of AIS?

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  1. Taller
  2. Normal appearance
  3. Infertility
71
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What are 6 androgen biosynthetic dysfunction in 46XY individuals?

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  1. Luteinizing hormone (LH) receptor mutations
  2. 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 deficiency
  3. 17α-hydroxylase deficiency
  4. 17,20 lyase deficiency
  5. 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
  6. 5α-reductase deficiency
72
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What are 6 androgen excess in 46XX individuals?

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  1. 21-hydroxylase deficiency
  2. 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 deficiency
  3. Cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase deficiency (disorder in mother causes 46,XX
    fetal virilization)
  4. 11β-hydroxylase deficiency
  5. Aromatase deficiency
  6. Glucocorticoid receptor mutations
73
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What is increased in 46XX individuals?

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Increased androgen exposure in utero

- eg) androgenic drugs

74
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What family is estrogen alpha and beta part of?

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Thyroid hormone nuclear receptor family

75
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Where is estrogen alpha expressed in?

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Reproductive tissues

76
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What does estrogen alpha do? (2)

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Mediates the majority of…

  1. Sexually dimorphic
  2. Reproductive functions
77
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What does estrogen beta exhibit?

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A distinct pattern of expression

78
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What are 3 places that estrogen is expressed in?

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  1. Prostate
  2. Brain
  3. Immune cells
79
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What occurs in all the domains of estrogen receptors?

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Phosphorylation

80
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What is tamoxifen?

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Is an antagonist of the estrogen receptor in breast tissue

81
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NISS

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Nuclear initiated steroid signalling

82
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How does WHO define sex?

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Refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women

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