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==Production==
Natural sex steroids are made by the [[gonad]]s ([[ovary|ovaries]] or [[testes]]),<ref name="pmid10592444">{{cite journal|last=Brook|first=CG|title=Mechanism of puberty|journal=Hormone research|year=1999|volume=51 Suppl 3|pages=52–4|pmid=10592444|doi=10.1159/000053162}}</ref> by [[adrenal gland]]s, or by conversion from other sex steroids in other tissue such as liver or fat.<ref>{{cite book|title=Health, Risk, and Adversity - Volume 2 of Studies of the Biosocial Society|author1=Catherine Panter-Brick |author2=Agustín Fuentes |publisher=Berghahn Books, 2011|chapter=Glossary|page=280}}</ref>
==Synthetic sex steroids==▼
There are also many synthetic sex steroids. Synthetic androgens are often referred to as [[anabolic steroid]]s. Synthetic estrogens and progestins are used in methods of [[hormonal contraception]]. [[Ethinylestradiol]] is a semi-synthetic estrogen. Specific compounds that have partial agonist activity for [[steroid receptors]], and therefore act in part like natural steroid hormones, are in use in medical conditions that require treatment with steroid in one cell type, but where systemic effects of the particular steroid in the entire organism are only desirable within certain limits.<ref name="pmid19382224">{{cite journal|last=Copland|first=JA|author2=Sheffield-Moore, M |author3=Koldzic-Zivanovic, N |author4=Gentry, S |author5=Lamprou, G |author6=Tzortzatou-Stathopoulou, F |author7=Zoumpourlis, V |author8=Urban, RJ |author9= Vlahopoulos, SA |title=Sex steroid receptors in skeletal differentiation and epithelial neoplasia: is tissue-specific intervention possible?|journal=BioEssays|date=June 2009|volume=31|issue=6|pages=629–41|pmid=19382224|doi=10.1002/bies.200800138}}</ref>▼
==Types==
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Sex steroids include:
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** [[Androstenedione]]
** [[Dehydroepiandrosterone]]
** [[Dihydrotestosterone]]
** [[Testosterone]]
* [[Estrogen]]s
** [[Estradiol]]
** [[Estriol]]
** [[Estrone]]
* [[Progestogen]]s
** [[Progesterone]]
▲==Synthetic sex steroids==
▲There are also many synthetic sex steroids. Synthetic androgens are often referred to as [[anabolic steroid]]s. Synthetic estrogens and progestins are used in methods of [[hormonal contraception]]. [[Ethinylestradiol]] is a semi-synthetic estrogen. Specific compounds that have partial agonist activity for [[steroid receptors]], and therefore act in part like natural steroid hormones, are in use in medical conditions that require treatment with steroid in one cell type, but where systemic effects of the particular steroid in the entire organism are only desirable within certain limits.<ref name="pmid19382224">{{cite journal|last=Copland|first=JA|author2=Sheffield-Moore, M |author3=Koldzic-Zivanovic, N |author4=Gentry, S |author5=Lamprou, G |author6=Tzortzatou-Stathopoulou, F |author7=Zoumpourlis, V |author8=Urban, RJ |author9= Vlahopoulos, SA |title=Sex steroid receptors in skeletal differentiation and epithelial neoplasia: is tissue-specific intervention possible?|journal=BioEssays|date=June 2009|volume=31|issue=6|pages=629–41|pmid=19382224|doi=10.1002/bies.200800138}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Sexual motivation and hormones]]
==References==
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