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Sex steroid
Sex steroids
, also known as
gonadal steroids
, are
steroid hormones
that interact with
vertebrate
androgen
or
estrogen
receptor
s. Their effects are mediated by slow genomic mechanisms through
nuclear receptors
as well as by fast nongenomic mechanisms through membrane-associated receptors and
signaling cascades
. The term
sex hormone
is nearly always synonymous with
sex steroid
. The non-steroid hormones
luteinizing hormone
,
follicle-stimulating hormone
and
gonadotropin-releasing hormone
are usually not regarded as sex hormones, although they play major sex-related roles.
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