Researchers have discovered an important step in the activation of juvenile hormone target genes. As butterflies, fruit flies and mosquitoes transform their body structures as they molt from larva to ...

Growth hormone is widely used clinically to promote growth and anabolism and for other purposes. Its actions are mediated via the growth hormone receptor, both directly by tyrosine kinase activation ...

The importance of the thyroid hormone axis in the regulation of skeletal growth and maintenance has been well established from clinical studies involving patients with mutations in proteins that ...

New study based on the early versus late intervention trial with estradiol data confirms benefit of hormone therapy in reducing multiple biomarkers of inflammation. Mechanism of benefits offered by ...

PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

The selective estrogen-receptor modulators (SERMs) represent a major therapeutic advance for clinical practice. Unlike estrogens, which are uniformly agonists, and antiestrogens, which are uniformly ...

The purpose of this review is to provide an up-to-date report on the molecular and physiologic processes involved in the role of thyroid hormone as an epigenetic factor in brain maturation. We ...

A study in the May 24th issue of Nature reveals that the Obesity Hormone – Leptin, targets multiple nerve sites and affects the brain in A study in the May 24th issue of Nature reveals that the ...

Increased levels of the hormone auxin usually promote cell growth in various plant tissues. Chinese scientists together with researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST ...

Androstenedione is a steroid hormone, also known as a "pro-hormone," that is formed mostly in men's testicles and women's ovaries and is used to boost the development of the hormones testosterone and ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Nocturia - Pipeline Review, H1 2020" drug pipelines has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Summary The latest Pharmaceutical and Healthcare disease pipeline ...

Just as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids, play an important role as butterflies, ...