hormone
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The natural hormone melatonin rises before bedtime, making us feel sleepy.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A lot of the so-called "problems" during teenage years are related to androgens, a hormone which, although present in girls, is more prevalent in boys.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Food and Drug Administration approved a generic competitor to its flagship hormone drug earlier than expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Perhaps the most striking is the story of Compound E, an adrenal hormone isolated by the Mayo Clinic biochemist Edward Kendall in 1935 and later synthesized with great difficulty by Tishler and other Merck chemists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Her face felt on fire during hormone surges.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The injectable drug mimics the body’s somatostatin hormone to treat disorders like slow-growing tumors and the overproduction of growth hormones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Among its many jobs, the hypothalamus helps regulate hunger, hormones, reproduction and body temperature.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Basically, I became another person,” she said, adding that her hormones felt out of whack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
One important part of this process involves prostaglandins, hormones produced by immune cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“At least not on purpose. If she beats you fair and square that’s one thing, but submitting yourself to her blade because of raging hormones is just plain stupid.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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