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thumb|300px|Left: A hormone feedback loop in a female adult human Right: Auxin transport from leaves to roots in [[Arabidopsis thaliana]]
A hormone is a chemical messenger that your body produces to control important functions like growth, metabolism, and reproduction by traveling through your bloodstream to affect distant cells. Hormones matter because they help regulate everything from how you develop and feel to how your body responds to stress and maintains balance.
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Research
1,908,363 papers- Recovery responses of testosterone, growth hormone, and IGF-1 after resistance exercise.ReviewJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2017Kraemer WJ, Ratamess NA, Nindl BCDOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00599.2016
- Growth Hormone(s), Testosterone, Insulin-Like Growth Factors, and Cortisol: Roles and Integration for Cellular Development and Growth With Exercise.ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology · 2020Kraemer WJ, Ratamess NA, Hymer WC et al.DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00033
- Hormone therapy in acne.ReviewIndian journal of dermatology, venereology and leprology · 2013Lakshmi CDOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.110765
- The role of hormones in muscle hypertrophy.ReviewThe Physician and sportsmedicine · 2018Fink J, Schoenfeld BJ, Nakazato KDOI: 10.1080/00913847.2018.1406778
- Hormone producing gynecological tumors: pathologic entities and clinical significance.ReviewExpert review of endocrinology & metabolism · 2018Boto AN, Hui PDOI: 10.1080/17446651.2018.1411799
- A Brief History of Modern Endocrinology and Definitions of a True Hormone.ReviewEndocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2019Bahadoran Z, Mirmiran P, Azizi F et al.DOI: 10.2174/1871530319666190326142908
- Rapid steroid hormone actions via membrane receptors.ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta · 2016Schwartz N, Verma A, Bivens CB et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2016.06.004
- [Natriuretic hormone].ReviewKlinische Wochenschrift · 1972Kramer HJ, Gonick HC, Krück FDOI: 10.1007/BF01487918
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21 sectionsContents
- Introduction and overview
- Discovery
- Arnold Adolph Berthold (1849)
- Charles and Francis Darwin (1880)
- Oliver and Schäfer (1894)
- Bayliss and Starling (1902)
- Types of signaling
- Chemical classes
- Vertebrates
- Invertebrates
- Plants
- Receptors
- Effects in humans
- Regulation
- Therapeutic use
- Hormone-behavior interactions
- Comparison with neurotransmitters
- Binding proteins
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|Left: A hormone feedback loop in a female adult human
Right: Auxin transport from leaves to roots in [[Arabidopsis thaliana]]
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