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Effect of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids on the Skin, Including Hair and Sebaceous Glands

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Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids

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Human skin is a target organ for androgenic hormones, the skin of men presenting characteristics that distinguish it from that of women and children. In prepubertal castrated men, the androgenic characteristics of the skin do not develop, but they appear when these men are treated with testosterone or other androgenic steroids. Administration of androgenic steroids causes the development of androgenic skin characteristics in women and children. The physiologic and pharmacologic effects of these anabolic-androgenic steroids upon the skin have been studied in man and experimental animals. The aim of this review is to describe the principal changes produced in the skin and its appendages, especially the sebaceous glands and the different types of hair, by administration of these steroids.

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