Essays Tagged: "Estrogen"
Steroid and non-steroid hormones differ in how they affect target cells. Describe the mechanisms involved using specific examples of each. How is it that hormones affect some cells and not others?
vity in target tissues somewhere else at a distance in the body. Steroid hormones include cortisol, estrogen, and testosterone. Non-steroid hormones include choleckystokinin, epinephrine, dopamine, in ... , epinephrine, dopamine, insulin, norepinephrine, serotonin, and vasopressin.Steroid hormones, like estrogen, directly affect gene expression in their target cells. These hormones are lipid soluble an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Report on various types of contreception.
s is done the monthly period will not occur. During the time that the ring is in it slowly releases estrogen and progestin hormones into the body. These hormones stop the woman ovulating and will thic ... y-one days, no pill is taken for 7 days then start again. The pills have a combination of synthetic estrogen and progesterone hormones. These hormones stop ovulation, preventing the ovaries from relea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Human Female Reproductive Organs.
he pelvic cavity below and to either side of the bellybutton. The ovaries also secrete the hormones estrogen and progesterone. The estrogen hormone causes the thickening of the lining of the uterus an ... he thickening of the lining of the uterus and vagina in the early phase of the menstrual cycle. The estrogen hormone is also responsible for female secondary sex characteristics such as pubic hair and ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Heart Disease in Women
lowing year" (internet 1) because they go untreated.The factors protecting women were thought to be estrogen. Women are protected until after menopause when the estrogen levels decrease. This is a goo ... efore hormone replacement takes place. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, estrogen and progestin replacement therapy showed some significant evidence against the increased le ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Health and medicine
. Menopause occurs when the ovaries run out of eggs and decrease production of sex hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, and to a lower extent androgen. It is a unique and natural experience for ev ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness
Steroids and Athletes... the different affects different steroids have on the human body, and how it is related to our althletes.
re drug or hormonal substances chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogen, progestins, and corticosteroids), that promotes muscle growth. They promote the growth of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Estrogen Mimics and thier Effect on the Environment.
ffects, and impaired Natural Killer cells and T lymphocyte responses (Daniels et al. 2002). But now estrogen mimics confront the environment with a potentially greater catastrophe. Estrogen mi ... cs confront the environment with a potentially greater catastrophe. Estrogen mimics, or xenoestrogens (foreign estrogens), are introduced into the body from the environment, mimic the actions ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Gender role
al difference between men and women. Testosterone (aggression) and androgen are higher in men while estrogen and others are higher in women. Third, they have a different gonadal and genital. Men have ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Gender and Testosterone.
omplimentary opposites. The concepts of the natural differences between body strength, flexibility, estrogen/testosterone production, and the worlds need for specified gender roles continually come up ... ender roles continually come up.I have had a hard time combating the argument that testosterone and estrogen are the reasons that men are aggressive while women are passive, men are more violent while ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Adult Tissue Angiogenesis: Evidence for Negative Regulation by Estrogen in the Uterus.
ser, 2003)In the past research has indicated that stimulation of uterine angiogenesis is induced by estrogen (Hyder and Stancel, 1999). This hypothesis was suggested based on the findings that estroge ... r SM, Stancel GM. 1999. Regulation of angiogenic growth factors in the female reproductive tract by estrogen and progesterone. Molecular Endocrinology 13 :806 - 811Yasuda Y, Masuda S, Chikuna M, Inouv ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Gender Roles: Societies' Law and Genetic Code
tly contributes to gender roles are hormones. Testosterone in men makes them more aggressive, while estrogen in females promotes the secondary female characteristics and is required for birth. Both se ... t males have substantially higher concentrations of testosterone and the same goes with females and estrogen. If males have more testosterone than females, it tends to make then more aggressive and vi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
The aspects of homosexuality
not in one's hands. What's more, according to researchers, great amount of testosterone in men and estrogen hormone in women tends to increase the intimacy between individuals of different sex. Howev ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
Middle Adulthood
as it was in our 20?s and 30?s. In women there is a drop in bone mass, due to the slow depletion of estrogen. Menopause is fast approaching, followed up with all the negative health complications that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Women Drivers
d behind the wheel of a car.But claiming someone is a rubbish driver just because of the amount of oestrogen in their bodies? Pointless! Want to throw up that hairy old argument about insurance rate d ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Women Drivers
d behind the wheel of a car.But claiming someone is a rubbish driver just because of the amount of oestrogen in their bodies? Pointless! Want to throw up that hairy old argument about insurance rate d ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Birth Control
re the Birth Control Pill and Depo-Provera. The "Pill" is a monthly series of 28 pills that contain estrogen and progesterone. They have been used since the early 1960's and have grown extremely popul ... e vagina once a month during the first five days of a female's menstrual period. Certain amounts of estrogen and progesterone are in the plastic of the ring; it is then inserted into the vagina and le ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Anorexia Nervosa and Its Effects on the Human Body
tiny bones that result in their breakage and also interferes with fertility. The sufferers level of estrogen, a reproductive hormone that protects the body against heart diseases and osteoporosis, als ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Rite of Passage
puberty are triggered by hormones that cause females to experience an increase in the production of estrogen (Steinberg, 2008). This period of change can be extremely stressful for a young female. Dur ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Information on Turner Syndrome
heir neck is webbed. Girls with TS are born without ovaries or poorly formed ones. Without ovaries, estrogen is absent, and they don’t go through puberty. Heart, kidney, thyroid, and aorta proble ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Viability of Premarin as a Hormone Replacement Therapy
2 by Wyeth. Women entering menopause can experience serious symptoms due to the declining levels of estrogen in the body. Premarin's mechanism of action, its studied effects on serum lipid composition ... nance is largely based on the proper functioning of a family of hormones, especial the secretion of estrogens which is depleted during menopause and which is replaced during HRT with Premarin. This de ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology