{"id":7269,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/androgen\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:03","slug":"androgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/androgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Androgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First discovered in 1936, it is a male sex steroid hormone in vertebrates produced by the testes and to a lesser extent by the adrenal cortex, such as testosterone, that controls the development and maintenance of sexual organs and secondary sexual characteristics in males. &nbsp;Also called androgenic hormone and testoid.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adolescent_growth_spurt\">Adolescent growth spurt<\/a>, <a href=\"adolescent_voice_change\">Adolescent voice change<\/a>, <a href=\"adrenal_cortex\">Adrenal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"dehydroepiandrosterone_-dhea-\">Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)<\/a>, <a href=\"hormones\">Hormones<\/a>, <a href=\"steroid_hormones\">Steroid hormones<\/a>, <a href=\"testosterone\">Testosterone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First discovered in 1936, it is a male sex steroid hormone in vertebrates produced by the testes and to a lesser extent by the adrenal cortex, such as testosterone, that controls the development and maintenance of sexual organs and secondary sexual characteristics in males. &nbsp;Also called androgenic hormone and testoid. See Adolescent growth spurt, Adolescent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/androgen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Androgen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}