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Parent topics
- Hormone [r]: A chemical director of biological activity that travels through some portion of the body as a messenger. [e]
- Peptide [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Antimullerian hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (AMH, also mullerian inhibiting factor or hormone)
- Adiponectin [r]: Add brief definition or description (also Acrp30)
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (ACTH, also corticotropin)
- Angiotensinogen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Angiotensin [r]: Oligopeptides which are important in the regulation of blood pressure (vasoconstriction) and fluid homeostasis via the renin-angiotensin system. These include angiotensins derived naturally from precursor angiotensinogen, and those synthesized (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Atrial-natriuretic peptide [r]: Add brief definition or description (ANP, also atriopeptin)
- Calcitonin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cholecystokinin [r]: Add brief definition or description (CCK)
- Crticotropin-releasing hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (CRH)
- Erythropoietin [r]: A protein hormone produced by the kidneys in response to hypoxia; it is essential for normal development and maturation of red blood cells (RBC). [e] (EPO)
- Follicle-stimulating hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (FSH)
- Gastrin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ghrelin [r]: A hormone produced by P/D1 cells lining the fundus of the human stomach that stimulate appetite. [e]
- Gglucagon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (GnRH)
- Growth hormone-releasing hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (GHRH)
- Human chorionic gonadotropin [r]: Add brief definition or description (hCG)
- Growth hormone [r]: A peptide hormone that is made in and secreted from the somatotroph cells of the anterior pituitary gland, and which is essential for regulating post-natal growth in all mammals. [e] (GH or hGH)
- Inhibin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Insulin [r]: Hormone that regulates blood glucose levels. [e]
- Insulin-like growth factor [r]: Add brief definition or description (IGF, also somatomedin)
- Leptin [r]: Hormone secreted by adipocytes that regulates appetite. [e]
- Luteinising hormone [r]: Pituitary hormone with an essential role in reproduction in both males and females. [e] (LH)
- Melanocyte stimulating hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (MSH or α-MSH)
- Neuropeptide Y [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oxytocin [r]: A mammalian hormone that is secreted into the bloodstream from the posterior pituitary gland, and which is also released into the brain where it has effects on social behaviors. [e] produced in the hypothalamus secreted from the posterior pituitary
- Parathyroid hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description(PTH)
- Prolactin [r]: Hormone secreted from lactotroph cells of the anterior pituitary gland with an essential role in lactation. [e] (PRL), anterior pituitary
- Relaxin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secretin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Somatostatin [r]: Neuropeptide whose best known function is as a hypothalamic factor that inhibits the secretion of growth hormone. [e]
- Thrombopoietin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (TSH)
- Thyrotropin-releasing hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description (TRH)
- Vasopressin [r]: A hormone also called (arginine vasopressin, (AVP); formerly known as antidiuretic hormone, ADH), produced in the hypothalamus secreted from the posterior pituitary that causes kidneys to concentrate urine to conserve water, also causes vasoconstriction. [e](arginine vasopressin, AVP; formerly known as antidiuretic hormone, ADH), produced in the hypothalamus secreted from the posterior pituitary
Other related topics
- Drugs banned from the Olympics [r]: Substances prohibited for use by athletes prior to, and during competing in the Olympics. [e]
- Steroid hormone [r]: Add brief definition or description
