title: Sex hormones and bone health in males.
abstract: Sex steroids play a key role in maintaining skeletal integrity lifelong, through a complex variety of endocrine, but also paracrine and possibly autocrine actions. The current knowledge that androgens may act as pro-hormones for estrogens has seriously challenged many traditional views, so that, at least for their skeletal actions, these can no longer be considered exclusively "male" or "female" hormones.
authors.affiliation: Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, IRCCS, Viale dei Cappuccini, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. venz.carnevale@libero.it
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Carnevale
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Romagnoli
authors.forename: Cristiana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cipriani
authors.forename: Romano
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Del Fiacco
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Piemonte
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pepe
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scillitani
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Minisola
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000378:metabolism; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000378:metabolism / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006262:Health; D020249:Hormone Replacement Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface