ACTH or thyroxine

Usage examples of hormone.

Stillbirths, abortuses, and placentas are in hot demand at the BLI for the dozen or so groups doing hormone research.

In adolescence the feelings of the Child replay in greatly amplified form as the hormones turn on and as the adolescent turns away from his parents as the principal source of stroking to his own age group for stroking of a new kind.

That gland, the adrenal cortex, also produces sex hormones, and especially androgens.

It works this way-any kind if stress situation causes the pituitary gland to release a protein substance called adrenocorticotrophic hormone, ACTH for short.

It stands to reason that reduced DHEA levels can translate into reductions of these other hormones, particularly the other androgens, androstenedione and testosterone.

KX3 reacts with one of the hormones overproduced in an anorectic body.

Whatever hormone Cor had in his kith, it made Xishi as crazed for him as he was for her.

It stimulates your release of growth hormone and ornithine decarboxylase enzymes.

Jane, who started dieting about forty years ago at the age of twelve, the same time her adolescent hormones began to go haywire.

A lot of things release growth hormones: high-intensity exercise, hypoglycemia, trauma, sleep, dopaminergic stimulants, such amino acids as L-arginine and L-ornithine.

When, a little over a decade later, Bayliss and Starling worked out the concept of a hormone, it seemed very likely that the islets of Langerhans were ductless glands producing a hormone and that lack of this hormone brought on diabetes mellitus.

Recent studies give indications that there are more dyslexic boys than girls not only because of genetics but also because exposure to the male hormone testosteroneaffects boys during prenatal development of the brain.

One might think that this would be determined by a hormone that is secreted at the proper time, neutralizing ecdysone, ending the molts, and initiating metamorphosis.

She could taste the hormone spilling into her mouth as the engorged glands began to fill and demand the sharing.

Female hormones feminize the male body by softening the skin, reducing the growth of body hair, broadening the hips, and enlarging the breasts and nipples.