Synonyms for hormone
ˈhɔr moʊnhor·mone

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1. hormone, endocrine, internal secretionnoun

   the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect

   Synonyms:
   endocrine gland, internal secretion, ductless gland, endocrine

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1. List of paraphrases for "hormone":

   hormones, hormonal, msh, jh

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1. Sara Imarisio:

   This study does n’t show that hormone therapy causes Alzheimer’s. The researchers did n’t look at whether the participants went on to develop symptoms of dementia and we ca n’t be sure of cause and effect in this kind of research, hormone therapy provides important benefits to many women, helping to combat the symptoms that menopause can bring.

2. David Reynolds:

   While this large study suggests that women who received some forms of hormone therapy were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's, it doesn't show that hormone therapy is responsible for this increased risk.

3. Alissa Rumsey:

   Too little sleep can lead to surging levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, as well as decreased levels of leptin, a hormone that causes feelings of fullness.

4. Sekyu Choi:

   We first asked whether the stress hormone was regulating the stem cells directly and checked by taking out the receptor for corticosterone, but this turned out to be wrong. Instead, we found that the stress hormone actually acts on a cluster of dermal cells underneath the hair follicle, known as the dermal papilla, dermal papilla is known to be critical for activating hair follicle stem cells, but none of the previously identified factors secreted from dermal papilla changed when stress hormone levels were altered. Rather, the stress hormone prevented dermal papilla cells from secreting Gas6, a molecule that the researchers showed can activate the hair follicle stem cells.

5. Oliver Hall:

   Doctors don't have a lot of knowledge about trans bodies, and that's where we might get people being misinformed about the risk of pregnancy on [ hormone replacement therapy ], or even people who are on estrogen or on hormone blockers are sometimes misinformed about their ability to impregnate, that's the result of institutional transphobia not prioritizing knowledge about trans bodies.