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Hormones

Hormones

chemical substances having a specific regulatory effect on the activity of a certain organ or organs. The term was originally applied to substances secreted by various endocrine glands and transported in the bloodstream to the target organs. It is sometimes extended to include those substances that are not produced by the endocrine glands but that have similar effects.


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Re: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... What they find desirable is not here hard-wired into neurons it is an expression of the molecular genome itself that even responds chemically with hormones that increase to cause physiological change that in humans with just a picture of a member of same species inviting mating. We can to some ...

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by GaryGaulin
Sat May 30, 2009 5:24 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 100
Views: 1608

New Home/Classroom Fruit Fly Speciation Experiment

... What they find desirable is not here hard-wired into neurons it is an expression of the molecular genome itself that even responds chemically with hormones that increase to cause physiological change that in humans with just a picture of a member of same species inviting mating. We can to some ...

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by GaryGaulin
Fri May 15, 2009 1:55 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: New Home/Classroom Fruit Fly Speciation Experiment
Replies: 0
Views: 122

Muscle Tones

... tone and a smooth muscle tone? I was told that the skeletal muscle tone had something to do with muscle spindles and the smooth muscle tone used hormones ... Is it the mechanism to initiate muscle tone that is different? :?

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by micco13
Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:33 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Muscle Tones
Replies: 0
Views: 384

Therapeutic Regimens With Biologics

... Humulin, which was from Genetech in 1982. This new insulin that utilized what is called rDNA technology was also is used to produce human growth hormones, it is believed. Later, the rights were sold to Eli Lilly for this insulin product. Yet Genetech was likely the catalyst and apex of biologic ...

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by quiact
Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:55 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Therapeutic Regimens With Biologics
Replies: 0
Views: 234

Blood Pressure in Males and Females

... point of measure is that one moment when your heart beats. The control of blood pressure is a sum of many factors and has much to do with certain hormones, age, the state of blood vessels and ionic balance of the body among other things. I have understood it so that men have an elevated risk of ...

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by biohazard
Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:57 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Blood Pressure in Males and Females
Replies: 1
Views: 618
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