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hormone
hormone A regulatory substance, active at low concentrations, that is produced in specialized cells but that exerts its effect either on distant cells or on all cells in the organism to which it is conveyed via tissue fluids.
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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
; ...interested in livestock hormones in the early 1970s...giving the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol...fate of livestock hormones faded as researchers...and disrupt normal hormone and endocrine action...reproduction and hormone-like substances...excreted livestock hormones. ...
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Hormones and Heart Disease: Latest Evidence Shows No Benefit.
Magazine article from: The Network News; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...observational studies on hormones and heart disease...observed that groups of hormone users had less heart...health found in hormone users may be simply...reasons why women took hormones in the first place...that women who took hormones had a reduced risk...be concluded that hormone ...
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Hormones Can Raise Breast Cancer Risk
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...growth is fueled by hormones. Those rates fell...to have been on hormone pills. At the same...strong signs that hormones were playing a role...000. Stopping hormone use may have stopped...greater risk from hormones, the actual risk...of every 1,000 hormone users developed...
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HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY:DAN BURTON
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 7/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...of using natural hormones in hormone replacement therapy...concentrations of hormones in the body is entirely normal, hormone replacement therapy...medications for use in hormone replacement therapy...biologically identical hormones are the same chemical...
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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
; ...the important research on hormone therapy prior to the Womens...comparing women who chose to use hormones to those who did not. Even though hormone therapy has been popular since...first study to randomly give hormones or placebo to a large enough...
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Hormones and breathing *.
Magazine article from: Chest; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...recently, several hormones such as corticotropin-releasing hormone and leptin have...Locally synthesized hormones can diffuse into...effect of a single hormone can differ in various...the action of a hormone. Most complex processes...influenced by several hormones. Respiration as...
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Hormones for hot flashes--is "natural" better?(Prescription For Change)
Magazine article from: Women's Health Activist; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...because they match human hormones (the hormones themselves are synthesized). For...that "natural" or "bioidentical" hormones are superior to synthesized hormones. So-called Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy" (BHRT) uses...
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HORMONES: EU CONFERENCE MAY BE TOUGH TO SWALLOW
Newspaper article from: Europe Environment; 11/28/1995; 700+ words
; ...the US, growth hormones are still used in...wants to export its hormone-raised meat to...promise of the EU's hormone conference. Both...several animal growth hormones are safe for human...gathered experts at the hormone conference are widely...several kinds of hormones are safe for ...
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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 estrogen...combination with growth hormone to bring on puberty...level of both the growth hormone and sex hormones naturally decline...decline in growth and sex hormone levels, muscle mass...
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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
; ...literature on growth hormone, DHEA, melatonin...handful of other hormones -- chemical messengers...supplementation with growth hormone and sex hormones (estrogen/progesterone...clear-cut growth hormone deficiency, he...Several other hormones -- DHEA,
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Hormones
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
...keeps track of hormone levels is the...A number of hormones are secreted by...other important hormones such as prolactin inhibiting hormone (PIH), prolactin...secretes a number of hormones, including growth hormone (GH), ACTH...
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Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...therapy Definition Natural hormone replacement therapy...synthetic, bio-identical hormones (estrogens, progesterone...plants), to treat hormone imbalances and deficiencies...surfaces that bind specific hormones. Receptor-binding...are specific for the hormone and cell type. In the...
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hormones
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...gland secretes a hormone the appropriate...Classically, hormones are defined as chemical...term ‘hormone’, meaning...wide variety of hormones have been identified...concentration of the hormone than the arterial...it. The role of hormones The major endocrine...
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Growth Hormone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
...involve at least two hormones released by the...first, a growth-hormone-releasing hormone...these hypothalamic hormones regulate high amplitude...pulsatile, growth-hormone secretion. Activation...decline in growth-hormone pulse amplitude...these hypothalamic hormones are ...
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Hormone
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
Hormone Hormones are chemical messengers...genetics, but certain hormones produced by the...Discoveries The term hormone (from the Greek...isolation of the thyroid hormone thyroxine in 1914...understanding how hormones work. Too much...
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