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Essay Archive - The Hormones and Development of One's Sex
The Hormones and Development of One's Sex
The objectives of this article as I saw them were, (1) to show how fetal gonads
acquire the ability to function as endocrine organs, and (2), to show the
mechanisms by which the endocrine secretions modulate male development. The
researchers went through an extremely extensive explanation of the formation of
the sexual phenotypes by detailing the development of germ cells. They
explained how women's and men's gonads appear identical until Leydig cells,
which synthesize testosterone, appear in the connective tissue. This is when
differentiation begins.
The mechanism that thi....
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