Oestrogen is the hormone that principally strengthens the bone mass in women, and it is also of significance for the skeleton in men.
Of more importance in these experimental systems, this re-expressed
oestrogen receptor was now able to mediate an anti-oestrogen response in some of the cell lines studied.
Coope J: Double blind crossover study of
oestrogen replacement therapy.
Not only did
oestrogen treatment often stop disease progression, in some patients metastatic tumours became resensitised and again responded to anti-oestrogen treatments.
Effect of in vitro estrogenic pesticides on human
oestrogen receptor [alpha] and [beta] mRNA levels.
Environmental
oestrogens and human reproductive cancers.
Are
oestrogens involved in falling sperm counts and disorders of the male reproductive tract?
Several environmental
oestrogens are also anti-androgens.