Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy in Humans: Evidence from Murine Models is an unprecedented reference for scientists, researchers, students and anyone interested in this field of research. The book is a review of the current state of mouse animal models of relevance to transgender health. It's divided into chapters specific for different tissues in which mouse models are described and their relevance to human health is discussed. This is a novel reference summarizing what these models demonstrate about the benefits and risks of GAHT and the most effective and lowest risk approach to treatment. The models suggest applications of this research to human studies and treatment of transgender people. There is an expanding number of transgender people with are few evidence based books that address this field relating to the importance and growing role of murine models.
1. Introduction to transgender animal models, advantages and disadvantages and relevance to humans
2. Male to Female and Female to Male models, controls
3. Cross gender hormone effects on bone
4. Cross gender hormone effects on the CVS and blood pressure
5. Cross gender hormone effects on the immune system
6. Cross gender hormone effects on muscle
7. Cross gender hormone effects on body composition
8. Cross gender hormone effects the kidney
9. Cross gender hormone effects on wound healing
10. Cross gender hormone effects on the CNS
11. Conclusion
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