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Androgens

19 carbon hormone steroids responsible, during embryonic life, for the masculinisation of male embryos, and at adult age for the development of male characteristics (masculine) such as the largest muscular mass, the distribution of hair and sexual motivation. Testosterone is the prototype of the androgens.

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