Hormones
A hormone is a chemical that is produced in one tissue and transported via the circulatory system to a different target tissue. There, it causes a physiological change in the target.
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Hormonal Regulation
All types of cells are capable of receiving signals from their environment and mounting an appropriate response to the signal, such as chemotaxis toward a nutrient source or toward...
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Hormonal Control and Development
Plant hormones are a group of naturally occurring organic substances that, at low concentrations, influence physiological processes such as growth, differentiation, an...
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Hormones
Hormones are small molecules that are released by one part of a plant to influence another part. The principal plant growth hormones are the auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid, a...
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Hormones and Hormone Action
Hormones are biochemical messengers that regulate physiological events in living organisms. More than 100 hormones have been identified in humans. Hormones are secreted by ...
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Hormone
Hormones are chemicals produced by glands, tissues, and organs to control the function of a target organ or regulate the production of another hormone. The body produces a specific amount of a...
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Hormones
Hormones are chemicals that naturally occur in the body. These chemicals direct many biochemical events, including energy storage and utilization, maintenance, and growth. Hormones are releas...
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Hormone
Hormones are chemicals produced by glands, tissues, and organs to control the function of a target organ or regulate the production of another hormone. The body produces a specific amount of a...
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Hormones
Biochemical agents that transmit messages between components of living organisms.
Hormones are biochemical messengers that regulate physiological events in living organisms. More than 100 hor...
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In a Jan. 17 story, The Associated Press reported that Starbucks Corp. was dropping milk products containing an artificial growth hormone from some U.S. stores. The story should have included comme...
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A University of Iowa researcher is investigating the benefits of hormone replacement in older men.
Moshe Wald recently published a review of testosterone replacement studies in the Journal...
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Many Web sites have ignored federal warnings against making unfounded health claims in promoting hormone products to treat menopause, the government said Thursday.In letters to 34 Web sites, the Fe...
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Older women taking certain hormone replacement therapy may suffer hearing damage, scientists report.
A study of 124 postmenopausal women found that those taking hormone replacement therapy...
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For women who have struggled with the symptoms of menopause but are fearful of taking risky hormone pills, there is at last a bit of hope.Hormone skin patches and gels, it seems, are far less likel...
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This week's news that a big drop in breast cancer cases might be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.But doctors worry that women w...
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Research on two continents signaled more bad news for menopause hormones, offering the strongest evidence yet that they can raise the risk of breast cancer and are tied to a slightly higher risk of...
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Maybe hormones aren't so bad for women's hearts after all _ if the women are still in their 50s. In a postscript to a landmark study five years ago that led millions of women to abandon hormones du...
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