High-Dose Testosterone Treatment Increases Serotonin Transporter Binding in Transgender People

BACKGROUND: Women are two times more likely to be diagnosed with depression than men. Sex hormones modulating serotonergic transmission are proposed to partly underlie these epidemiologic findings. Here, we used the cross-sex steroid hormone treatment of transsexuals seeking sex reassignment as a mo...

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Published in:Biol Psychiatry
Main Authors: Kranz, Georg S., Wadsak, Wolfgang, Kaufmann, Ulrike, Savli, Markus, Baldinger, Pia, Gryglewski, Gregor, Haeusler, Daniela, Spies, Marie, Mitterhauser, Markus, Kasper, Siegfried, Lanzenberger, Rupert
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585531/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25497691
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.09.010
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