Alternative spelling of luteinizing hormone

A hormone that acts upon non-endocrine organs and tissues for the purposes of promoting cellular growth, differentiation, and survival. Often confused with tropic hormones.

Any of a group of sesquiterpene hormones that regulate insect physiology by preventing metamorphosis during moults.

plural of hormone therapy

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hormone, therapy. / Hormone replacement therapy.

A hormone, such as testosterone in males or estrogen in females, affecting sexual development and reproduction.

(biology) A peptide hormone found in insects, produced in the copora cardiaca or corpus allata, which initiates the release of the ecdysteroid hormone from the prothoracic gland.

(biochemistry) A polypeptide hormone that is released by the chief cells of the parathyroid glands and is involved in raising the levels of calcium ions in the blood.

(endocrinology) A hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.

(biochemistry) any of several closely related metabolically active compounds (as triiodothyronine) that are stored in the thyroid gland in the form of thyroglobulin or circulate in the blood usually bound to plasma proteins