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human growth hormone
human growth hormone (HGH): see growth hormone .
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Hormones: here's the beef: environmental concerns reemerge over steroids given to livestock.(animal excretions release synthetic hormones into environment)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Science News; 1/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...environmental fate of livestock hormones faded as researchers got caught...could mimic and disrupt normal hormone and endocrine action in people...specializing in reproduction and hormone-like substances, Bernard...discuss excreted livestock hormones. "Considering that the weakest of these ...
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Hormones Can Raise Breast Cancer Risk
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/19/2007; 700+ words
; ...the disease - tumors whose growth is fueled by hormones. Those rates fell almost...most likely to have been on hormone pills. At the same time...dramatically - strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists...per 100,000. Stopping hormone use may have stopped some...percent ...
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Hormones may stimulate growth of aggressive cancers.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...previous studies found that hormone users tended to have highly...Health Initiative found that hormone users' were just as likely...users. What's more, hormone users had more abnormal mammograms...diagnosis. This may be because hormones increase breast density...hormones stimulate cancerous ...
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Growth Hormone Alters Aging; Study Shows Risks Include Diabetes, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...organs. The two sex hormones, testosterone and...in combination with growth hormone to bring on puberty...the level of both the growth hormone and sex hormones naturally decline. With the decline in growth and sex hormone levels...
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HORMONES: EU CONFERENCE MAY BE TOUGH TO SWALLOW
Newspaper article from: Europe Environment; 11/28/1995; 700+ words
; ...States. In the US, growth hormones are still used...wants to export its hormone-raised meat to...to announce the hormone conference that...relax its ban on growth hormones, and one of the...promise of the EU's hormone conference. Both...several animal growth ...
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Can Hormones Stop Aging? Behind the Hype on DHEA, Melatonin and Growth Hormones
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...putting his trust in hormones. Like plenty of...medical literature on growth hormone, DHEA, melatonin...supplementation with growth hormone and sex hormones (estrogen/progesterone...intense in the case of growth hormone, but experts in...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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HORMONE USE PROLONGS WOMEN'S LIVES, STUDY FINDS : LONG-TERM ISSUES.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 6/19/1997; 700+ words
; ...sisters had breast cancer, hormone replacement was not associated...risk In the first 10 years of hormone use, the women who developed...than did women who never took hormones. This may reflect a tendency...detection of cancer among hormone users, or it may result from...promoter of breast cancer ...
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Hormone not a four-letter word
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 12/31/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...skeletal and visceral growth among other functions...acids and amines. Hormones can be isolated and...animals and humans. A hormone that has been receiving...somatotropin (BST) or bovine growth hormone (BGH). Bovine...naturally occurring protein hormone produced in the ...
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 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Hormones may stimulate growth of aggressive cancers.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 6/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...previous studies found that hormone users tended to have highly...Health Initiative found that hormone users' were just as likely...users. What's more, hormone users had more abnormal mammograms...diagnosis. This may be because hormones increase breast density...hormones stimulate cancerous ...
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HORMONES DEBATED
Newspaper article from: The Billings Gazette; 9/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...crops and animal hormones, said Monsanto...failing artificial growth hormone business...that growth hormone in the food...other insulin growth hormones that stimulate growth and multiplication...heightened insulin hormone growth levels...
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Hormones
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
...AP) secretes a number of hormones, including growth hormone (GH), ACTH, TSH, prolactin...FSH. GH controls cellular growth, protein synthesis, and elevation...controls secretion of some hormones by the adrenal cortex (mainly...
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hormones
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...endocrine gland secretes a hormone the appropriate cells respond...unaffected. Classically, hormones are defined as chemical substances...measuring the identified hormone ( assays ) can be established...higher concentration of the hormone than the arterial blood entering it. The role of ...
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Growth Hormone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
...at least two hormones released by the...hypothalamus: first, a growth-hormone-releasing hormone...hypothalamic hormones regulate high...pulsatile, growth-hormone secretion. Activation...of the hepatic growth-hormone receptor...
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Hormone
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
Hormone Hormones are chemical messengers...processes such as growth, reproduction...hormone, called growth hormone, must be secreted...amount for normal growth in childhood...giant. Thyroid Hormones Thyroid hormones...
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Growth Hormone Tests
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
...tests Definition Growth hormone tests measure the levels of specific hormones that regulate human growth. These hormone levels are measured...controlled by two other hormones secreted by the hypothalamus: growth hormone releasing hormone...
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