hormone
Example Sentences
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These findings indicate that changes in MRAP2 can interfere with the hormone system that normally helps maintain energy balance.
From Science Daily
Often referred to as the "feel-good" hormone, it influences mood, motivation, and attention.
From BBC
Each configuration seems contingent, not fixed, as if in a process of perpetual transition driven by some invisible force—tectonic restlessness or a growth hormone, say.
The team measured the stress hormone corticosterone in the rats, which is the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.
From Science Daily
A black box warning is the most serious caution the Food and Drug Administration can put on a medication, and its inclusion on hormone replacement theory, or HRT, put a severe chill on its use.
From Los Angeles Times
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