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steroid hormone

NOUN
  1. any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs

How To Use steroid hormone In A Sentence

  • The synthesis of steroid hormones involves many chemical steps from cholesterol to finished product.
  • The mechanisms on catamenial epilepsy show that ovarian steroid hormones not only regulate reproductive behavior but also exert short-term and long'-term effects on the brain.
  • Perhaps it is down to all the steroid hormones pumped into livestock to make them bigger in order to satisfy our insatiable appetites for dead animal.
  • The pesticide heptachlor affects steroid hormone secretion in isolated follicular and luteal cells of rat [An article from: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C] by J.A. Oduma OpEdNews - Quicklink: US Drinking Water and Watersheds Widely Contaminated by Hormone Disrupting Pesticide, Atrazine
  • These gonadotropins in turn stimulate synthesis of steroid hormones in target tissues.
  • While classified as a vitamin, it is a steroid hormone vital to health. Times, Sunday Times
  • Any of several Mexican plants of the genus Dioscorea having a large, inedible root that yields an extract used as a raw material for synthetic steroid hormones.
  • These steroid hormones are produced by the crustacean Y-organs and the insect prothoracic glands.
  • Painter DL, Moore MC (2005) Steroid hormone metabolism by the chorioallantoic placenta of the mountain spiny lizard Sceloporus jarrovi as a possible mechanism for buffering maternal-fetal hormone exchange. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Steroid hormones such as progesterone, testosterone, and estradiol are derived from cholesterol, a major constituent of biomembranes.
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