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Steroids - class of lipids having a particular molecular ring structure called the cyclopentanoperhydro-phenanthrene ring system. Steroids differ from one another in the structure of various side chains and additional rings. Steroids are common in both plants and animals. In humans, steroids are secreted by the ovaries and testes, the adrenal cortex (see adrenal gland), and the placenta.

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    Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids in Adolescence: Winning, Looking Good or Being Bad?, in Journal of Studies on Alcohol » Read Now

    by Lars Wichstrom, Willy Pedersen. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids in Adolescence: Winning, Looking...USE OF anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) was first known to the public...whether they had ever used...
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    Psychological Characteristics of Adolescent Steroid Users, in Adolescence » Read Now

    by Kent F. Burnett, Mark E. Kleiman. 9 pgs.

    ...Kleiman While anabolic-androgenic steroids have been used since the early 1950s...000 high school students use anabolic steroids (Tierney McLain, 1990) and that at...as...
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    Drug Testing: Issues and Options (Chap. 6 "Drug Testing in Athletics") » Read Now

    by Robert H. Coombs, Louis Jolyon West. 248 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    From workplace to school, from professional sports to the armed services, the advent of drug-testing procedures has stirred debate and controversy. Although designed to detect and thereby curtail the use of illicit drugs, this well-intentioned procedure involves difficult issues which require...
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    Controversies of the Sports World (Chap. 9 "Pumping Up") » Read Now

    by Douglas T. Putnam. 253 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Contemporary life in the United States would be difficult to understand without examining the pivotal role sports have played in it. Controversies of the Sports World is designed to take readers of all ages into the heart of the tensions and conflicts that arise from the wide-ranging enterprise that...
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    Developmental Changes in Behavior and in Steroid Uptake by the Male and Female Macaque Brain, in Developmental Neuropsychology » Read Now

    by Richard P. Michael, Doris Zumpe. 28 pgs.

    ...system of neurons that can accumulate steroids in the hypothalamus and amygdala of...vivo competition studies with unlabeled steroids to demonstrate that the major form...
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    How Hormones Affect Behavioral and Neural Development: Introduction to the Special Issue on "Gonadal Hormones and Sex Differences in Behavior", in Developmental Neuropsychology » Read Now

    by Sheri A. Berenbaum. 22 pgs.

    ...1985 ). "Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids on brain and behavior: A reanalysis". Hormones and Behavior...Meck, W. H. ( 1991 ). "The organizational...
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    Best Magazine Articles, 1988 ("Confessions of a Steroid Smuggler" begins on p. 1) » Read Now

    by Thomas Fensch. 186 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...biggest dealers of black-market anabolic steroids in the country, and now Swirda was...government for illegally buying and selling steroids. Most of the drugs, which are...
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    Nonassociative Processes and Place Preferences Conditioned by Testosterone, in The Psychological Record » Read Now

    by Barbara J. Caldarone, Howard S. Stock, Glenn C. Abrahamsen, Michael L. Boechler, Bruce B. Svare, Robert A. Rosellini. 18 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Rosellini Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), the synthetic variants of the...producing a CTA. Research using ovarian steroids, however, has shown that these...
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    Sexual Health for Men: The Complete Guide ("How do Athletes and Bodybuilders use Testosterone and other Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS)?" begins on p. 170) » Read Now

    by Richard F. Spark. 440 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    From impotence to infertility, Viagra to vasectomy, this comprehensive and easy-to-read guide is for men of all ages. 100 illustrations.
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    Drugs in Sport (Chap. 5 "Androgenic Anabolic Steroids" begins on p. 138) » Read Now

    by David R. Mottram. 421 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Drug use and abuse represents perhaps the most profound and high-profile issue facing sport today. Each major international championship seems to deliver a new drug-related controversy, while drug takers and sports administrators attempt to out-manoeuvre each other with new substances and new...
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    Working with Substance Misusers: A Guide to Theory and Practice (Chap. 28 "Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Misusers") » Read Now

    by Andrew McBride, Trudi Petersen. 367 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Using role plays, clinical scenarios and reader activities to aid understanding, this is a textbook for all professionals working in the field of substance abuse for the first time.

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