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unusual facts about hormones



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Adrenocortical hormone

Mineralocorticoid hormones are synthesized in the outermost layer of the adrenal cortex known as the zona glomerulosa.

Aux

Auxin, a class of plant hormones and morphogens, or associated molecules such as auxin influx transporters (e.g. AUX1) and the Aux/IAA early auxin responsive transcription factor family (e.g. AUX22).

Developmental toxicity

Typical factors causing developmental toxicity are radiation, infections (e.g. rubella), maternal metabolic imbalances (e.g. alcoholism, diabetes, folic acid deficiency), drugs (e.g. anticancer drugs, tetracyclines, many hormones, thalidomide), and environmental chemicals (e.g. mercury, lead, dioxins, PBDEs, HBCD, tobacco smoke).

Full Moon Party

The Full Moon Party is featured in films such as The Beach, Last Stop for Paul and the Thai film Hormones.

HTPA

Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, the relationship the brain and stress hormones as they interact in a feedback loop

Hunger

The hormones Peptide YY and Leptin can have an opposite effect on the appetite, causing the sensation of being full.

Maternal hypothyroidism

Thyroid hormones, T4 and TSH, diffuse across the placenta traveling from the mother to fetus for 10-12 weeks before the fetus’s own thyroid gland can begin synthesizing its own thyroid hormones.

Receptor

Nuclear receptor, a receptor found within cells that is responsible for sensing steroid and thyroid hormones and certain other molecules

Slow-wave sleep

A study from the Department of Endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, indicated that regular deep sleep in children is helpful in triggering the steady release of the hormones that cause puberty.

T. S. Wiley

Former actress Suzanne Somers advocates the Wiley Protocol in her book Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones.

Taming Strange

Kyle is then contacted by Terry, and learns that because the Canadian health care system is managed by Intellilink, Ike has mistakenly been given NFL football player Tom Brady's hormones, while Brady has been given the medication for Ike's laxatives, which now causes Brady to have involuntarily bowel movements on the football field.

XPNPEP1

Because of its specificity toward proline, it has been suggested that X-prolyl aminopeptidase is important in the maturation and degradation of peptide hormones, neuropeptides, and tachykinins, as well as in the digestion of otherwise resistant dietary protein fragments, thereby complementing the pancreatic peptidases.


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