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hormone

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Also known as hormones

thumb|300px|Left: A hormone feedback loop in a female adult human Right: Auxin transport from leaves to roots in [[Arabidopsis thaliana]]

AI overview

A hormone is a chemical messenger that your body produces to control important functions like growth, metabolism, and reproduction by traveling through your bloodstream to affect distant cells. Hormones matter because they help regulate everything from how you develop and feel to how your body responds to stress and maintains balance.

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Research

1,908,363 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections
Contents
  • Introduction and overview
  • Discovery
  • Arnold Adolph Berthold (1849)
  • Charles and Francis Darwin (1880)
  • Oliver and Schäfer (1894)
  • Bayliss and Starling (1902)
  • Types of signaling
  • Chemical classes
  • Vertebrates
  • Invertebrates
  • Plants
  • Receptors
  • Effects in humans
  • Regulation
  • Therapeutic use
  • Hormone-behavior interactions
  • Comparison with neurotransmitters
  • Binding proteins
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|300px|Left: A hormone feedback loop in a female adult human

Right: Auxin transport from leaves to roots in [[Arabidopsis thaliana]]

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hormone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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