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Medication and Sex steroid

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Difference between Medication and Sex steroid

Medication vs. Sex steroid

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Sex steroids, also known as gonadocorticoids and gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate androgen or estrogen receptors.

Similarities between Medication and Sex steroid

Medication and Sex steroid have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Anabolic steroid, Androgen, Estrogen, Follicle-stimulating hormone, Gonadotropin-releasing hormone, Hormonal contraception, Luteinizing hormone, Progestogen, Sex steroid.

Anabolic steroid

Anabolic steroids, also known more properly as anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), are steroidal androgens that include natural androgens like testosterone as well as synthetic androgens that are structurally related and have similar effects to testosterone.

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Androgen

An androgen (from Greek andr-, the stem of the word meaning "man") is any natural or synthetic steroid hormone which regulates the development and maintenance of male characteristics in vertebrates by binding to androgen receptors.

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Estrogen

Estrogen, or oestrogen, is the primary female sex hormone.

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Follicle-stimulating hormone

Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a gonadotropin, a glycoprotein polypeptide hormone.

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Gonadotropin-releasing hormone

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) also known as gonadoliberin, and by various other names in its endogenous form and as gonadorelin in its pharmaceutical form, is a releasing hormone responsible for the release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) from the anterior pituitary.

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Hormonal contraception

Hormonal contraception refers to birth control methods that act on the endocrine system.

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Luteinizing hormone

Luteinizing hormone (LH, also known as lutropin and sometimes lutrophin) is a hormone produced by gonadotropic cells in the anterior pituitary gland.

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Progestogen

Progestogens, also sometimes spelled progestagens or gestagens, are a class of steroid hormones that bind to and activate the progesterone receptor (PR).

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Sex steroid

Sex steroids, also known as gonadocorticoids and gonadal steroids, are steroid hormones that interact with vertebrate androgen or estrogen receptors.

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Medication and Sex steroid Comparison

Medication has 369 relations, while Sex steroid has 36. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 2.22% = 9 / (369 + 36).

References

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