A new hypothesis suggests that the placenta—and the hormones it releases—may have been key drivers in the evolution of the human brain. The researchers propose that these hormonal influences ...

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NEED TO KNOW A man who was abandoned as a newborn in a plastic bag with his placenta still attached has been reunited with his birth family 40-year–old Jon Scarlett-Phillips was captured meeting ...

The process of steroidogenesis in Leydig cells is fundamental to male reproductive biology, involving the conversion of cholesterol into testosterone and other steroid hormones.

In patients with Cushing's disease, the primary treatment modality is transsphenoidal surgery, which results in variable remission rates of 50–80%. [1, 9–12] Second-line therapies (after ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of the questions most often asked of the National Museum of Natural History by presenting some general facts about the biology and natural ...

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Bringing all these lines of evidence together, the authors propose that high levels of prenatal sex steroid hormones in the womb, combined with increased placental function, may have made human brains ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

Autoimmune diseases are a diverse group of conditions in which immune system dysfunction promotes chronic inflammation and healthy tissue damage following exposure to an environmental antigen. A ...

12. Xu M, Li X, Ma C, Lü Y, Ma X, Ma X. Effect of human placental mesenchymal stem cells transplantation on pulmonary vascular endothelial permeability and lung injury repair in mice with acute lung ...