Endocrinology of Reproduction and Sexuality: Insights into the Molecular Aspects
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1548
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reproductive endocrinology is still facing numerous challenges. Reproductive disorders can include a broad range of symptoms, including hirsutism, alterations of the menstrual cycle, infertility, and sexual dysfunctions.
Despite their high prevalence in both sexes, sexual health is often neglected in clinical practices. The identification of sexual dysfunctions can also highlight underlying conditions and predict major comorbid disorders, including cardiovascular diseases. The pathogenesis of sexual dysfunctions is complex and multifactorial, including both organic (vascular, neurogenic, endocrine, etc.) and psychological causes, which often overlap and worsen each other. Lifestyle risk factors, including smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, and excessive alcohol, as well as drug consumption, may deeply impair reproduction and sexual functions in both women and men.
This Special Issue aspires to give an overview of popular reproductive endocrinology issues and to deeply examine the molecular aspects underlying sexual dysfunctions and reproductive diseases in both women and men. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that are involved in the etiology and progression of these disorders could increase our ability to identify new targets for their treatment and their related consequences for people’s general health and quality of life.
Dr. Federica Barbagallo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reproduction
- reproductive endocrinology
- infertility
- sexual health
- sexual functioning
- female sexual dysfunction
- hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- dyspareunia
- anorgasmia
- erectile dysfunction
- premature ejaculation
- amenorrhea
- polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (FHA)
- male hypogonadism
- female hypogonadism
- contraception
