Sentences with phrase «as sex hormones»

Its recycling effect helps determine the blood levels of many compounds, including important substances such as sex hormones.

«Testosterone replacement makes Type 2 diabetic men more sensitive to insulin: Testosterone is a metabolic hormone as well as a sex hormone, researchers say.»

The estrogen level regulating compound known as sex hormone - binding globulin is also increased by lignans.

Though referred to as a sex hormone, progesterone conveys no specific secondary sex characteristics and as such can not be called a male or female hormone.

«When insulin spikes, typically after a meal high in sugar, this can lead to lower levels of an important protein known as sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG).

It can also be useful at times to test the steroid hormones in blood while also testing the proteins that bind to the hormones, such as Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG).

Treatment is to identify and treat underlying disease process; such as sex hormone related adrenal hyperplasia (abnormal cell growth) which is treated with lysodren.

Data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference revealed that coffee has effects on insulin and glucose metabolism as well as sex hormone levels, all of which play a role in prostate cancer.

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Manning was born male, and was known as Bradley Manning before changing her name to Chelsea and suing for sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatments while in prison.

Testosterone is known as a male sex hormone, but women have levels of the hormone in their system as well.

Likewise, the phytoestrogens in soy have not only been shown to be metabolized differently than real estrogen (such as that in cows milk), in humans as opposed to rats, but have shown a wide array of anti-cancer effects, including cancers instigated by sex hormones such as estrogen!

Manganese promotes healthy nerve function and helps the body produce sex hormones and form strong bones as well as processing cholesterol and healthy nerve function.

When stress levels are stable, the sex hormones are also typically more balanced as well.

Sex hormones known as androgens can cause new hair to sprout in never before seen places such as your chin, upper lip, jaw and even cheeks.

This is the best ovulation predictor kit for the money as it can identify and predict your ovulation days and your Luteinizing Hormone surge so as to determine the best days for having sex and conceiving.

Add to that the fact that hormones are running wild as they try to get back to their pre-pregnancy levels, which can actually cause dryness in the lady areas, and sex may be painful after having the baby.

When you have sex, your body is triggered to release a hormone known as oxytocin that usually aids in contractions.

The cells made sex hormones in the same proportions as healthy ovaries (Biomaterials, doi.org/kxv).

Besides skewing the sex ratio, the hormone could be disrupting the animals» reproduction, a concern because American crocodiles are already listed as vulnerable, and this part of Costa Rica is a stronghold for the species.

Also known as anti-Müllerian hormone, MIS is not a sex steroid hormone.

Additional methods have been developed for women — such as implants, patches, vaginal rings and injectables — but most do basically the same thing as the pill: use synthetic versions of sex steroid hormones to suppress ovulation.

Hormones drive many of these sex differences, while major life events — such as puberty, pregnancy, parenthood or even traumas — also help shape male and female brain circuitry.

Like many endocrine disruptors, those chemicals triggered the same effects as estrogens, or female sex hormones.

Most early prostate cancers require male sex hormones, known as androgens, to grow.

They also demonstrated that the organoids respond to female sex hormones and early pregnancy signals, secreting what are collectively known as «uterine milk» proteins that nourish the embryo during the first months of pregnancy.

If gonadal hormones alone control sex - specific brain function, the two halves of the bird's brain that controls song (known as the song circuit) would be uniformly masculine or feminine.

The teams are yet to identify every gene contained within this supergene region, but have so far found a gene involved in colouring, which could explain differences in plumage, as well as genes involved in processing sex hormones.

Around 70 % of all cases of breast cancer are oestrogen - receptor positive, meaning that the cancer cells have a particular protein (known as a receptor) that responds to the female sex hormone oestrogen, enabling the tumour to grow.

As scientists continue to explore differences between the sexes in both anatomy and behaviour, they are learning that hormones, enzymes and neurochemicals have quite different effects on organs that should be the same.

They have also discovered that the animals are contaminated with a synthetic hormone known as 17α - methyltestosterone, or MT, which may be shifting the sex ratio toward males.

Male fetuses are particularly sensitive to toxins such as environmental lead, sex hormone analogs, medications and other synthetic molecules.

One of the hallmarks of pregnancy is an enormous increase in sex steroid hormones such as progesterone and estrogen, which help a woman's body prepare for carrying a child.

It can also change the levels of sex hormones, such as oestrogen and testosterone, cause levels of insulin to rise, and lead to inflammation, all of which are factors that have been associated with increased cancer risk.»

Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid compounds, named for their importance in the oestrus cycle, and functioning as the primary female sex hormone.

Muscle atrophies as growth hormone declines; bones get fragile as estrogen declines; sex drive dwindles as testosterone declines.

The female sex hormone estrogen has anti-viral effects against the influenza A virus, commonly known as the flu, a new study in American Journal of Physiology — Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology reports.

As concentrations of the sex hormone estradiol — the most potent estrogen — declined during menopause, greater volumes of cardiovascular fat were found.

Male and female mice differ not only in living arrangements but in exposure to sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen that their own bodies produce.

«It is possible that women in these locations have higher sex hormone levels, which have been positively associated with hormone - related cancers such as breast cancer.»

Women are twice as likely as men to have asthma, and this gender difference may be caused by the effects of sex hormones on lung cells.

Today the bonding hormone is thought to be oxytocin, a chemical secreted after intense social experiences such as birth and sex.

Two American medics, William Hazzard and Deborah Applebaum - Bowden of Wake Forest University in North Carolina, believe the killing agent is not so much the testicles as the male sex hormones they produce.

Because of this lapse, WatchFrog is targeting its tests to OECD guidelines, which define hormone disruptors as chemicals that can disrupt the ability of a fish to produce eggs or change sex or prevent a tadpole from metamorphosing.

Sex hormones may have a ripple effect on many other genes, Drake suggests, noting that those involved in specialized, as opposed to simply structural, functions were more likely to differ between males and females.

Finally, information on the bears» hormonal states is extracted from the samples: Cortisol gives a picture of stress levels, thyroxin provides an index of protein depravation or starvation, and sex hormones provide insight as to whether a female had cubs in the past year — all this from a clump of hair.

The onset of breast cancer is closely related to the sex hormone estrogen, and estrogen antagonists such as tamoxifen have been used as anti-breast cancer drugs.

Carrying excess body fat can change the levels of sex hormones, such as oestrogen and testosterone, can cause levels of insulin to rise, and lead to inflammation, all of which are factors that have been associated with increased cancer risk.

Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects.

Current projects focus on air pollution, occupational exposures such as shift work, biomarkers such as melatonin, vitamin D, and sex hormones, and other factors such as physical activity, and genetic variants.

This may be associated with sex hormones and their receptors, different body fat distribution and related biomarkers, such as higher adiponectin, which are discussed earlier.