In the past, it was assumed that a female was simply a male with hormones, says Tracey Shors, a professor of neuroscience at Rutgers University.

Rutgers大学的神经科学教授Tracey Shors指出过去人们一直简单地认为女性与男性的差别仅在于前者要受激素的影响。

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Female hormones have a different effect on teenage girls.

女性激素对少女产生了不同的作用。

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For example, a female fetus that spends the pregnancy sandwiched between two brothers grows up to be more masculinized, because she's been exposed to their hormones.

比如说，一个雌性的胎儿夹在俩个雄性的胎儿中间，当它长大后就会更多地表现出一些雄性特征，因为它受到了男性激素的影响。

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They think it might involve female hormones, like estrogen.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

They think it might involve female hormones,like estrogen.

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She says this will be her next line of inquiry whether female hormones, such as estrogen, somehow protect young women from the neurological damage created by exposure to lead.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

They said hormone treatments such as tibolone (Livial) which used male sex hormones called androgens, rather than female hormones, were more successful in increasing libido.

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They behave like female hormones, estrogens, or they - some of them block androgens, male hormones.

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Ever scrambling to piece together an income, Antheil wrote frequently for Esquire magazine including articles on endocrinology, particularly female hormones, that happened to catch Lamarr's attention.

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