Browsing Facultad de Ciencias Médicas by Subject "Testosterone"

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    • Inefficient N2-like neutrophils are promoted by androgens during infection 

      Peinetti, Nahuel; Leimgruber, Carolina; Menezes, Gustavo B.; Maldonado, Cristina Alicia; Quintar, Amado Alfredo; Scalerandi, María Victoria; Cuello Rubio, Mariana Micaela; Nicola, Juan Pablo (2018)
      Neutrophils are major effectors of acute inflammation against infection and tissue damage, with ability to adapt their phenotype according to the microenvironment. Although sex hormones regulate adaptive immune cells, which ...

    • Reproductive performance of male mice after hypothalamic ghrelin administration 

      Poretti, María Belén; Frautschi, Camila; Luque, Eugenia Mercedes; Bianconi, Santiago; Martini, Ana Carolina; Stutz, Graciela; Vincenti, Laura María; Santillán, María Emilia; Ponzio, Marina Flavia; Schiöth, Helgi; Fiol De Cuneo, Marta Haydee; Bianconi, Santiago; Carlini, Valeria Paola (2018)
      It has been demonstrated that food intake and reproductive physiology are both simultaneously modulated to optimize reproductive success under fluctuating metabolic conditions. Ghrelin (GHRL) is an orexigenic peptide ...

    • The response of prostate smooth muscle cells to testosterone is determined by the subcellular distribution of the androgen receptor 

      Peinetti, Nahuel; Scalerandi, María Victoria; Cuello Rubio, Mariana Micaela; Leimgruber, Carolina; Nicola, Juan Pablo; Torres, Alicia Ines; Quintar, Amado Alfredo; Maldonado, Cristina Alicia (2018)
      Androgen signaling in prostate smooth muscle cells (pSMCs) is critical for the maintenance of prostate homeostasis, the alterations of which are a central aspect in the development of pathological conditions. Testosterone ...