Steroid hormone levels in healthy adults are influenced by oral contraceptives and smoking, as well as other lifestyle choices and factors such as biological sex and age, according to new research ...

Roughly 200 million women around the world suffer from endometriosis, a condition that causes tissue from the lining of the uterus to grow in places outside of the uterus.

gonadal hormones and gastrointestinal hormones, respectively. Hormones can be paracrine, endocrine or autocrine factors. The Activin-A precursor protein undergoes proteolytic processing by furin ...

The findings indicate that differences in how men and women use and misuse opioids may be driven by their hormones, and that a deeper understanding of how sex hormones interact with chronic pain ...

Gastrointestinal cancer refers to malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and other organs involved in digestion, including the oesophagus, stomach, biliary system, pancreas, small ...

Oxytocin, a hormone already known for its role in childbirth, milk release, and mother-infant bonding, may have a newfound purpose in mammalian reproduction. In times of maternal stress ...

Additionally, the levels of relevant immune factors and gastrointestinal hormones were measured, as well as the expression of intestinal tight junction proteins and the P38MAPK signaling pathway.

One of the causes now being investigated is how a mother’s levels of androgens (male hormones such as testosterone ... people – such as anxiety, gastrointestinal pain and epilepsy – but ...

The first, she said, is suffering from the symptoms associated with this life phase, but is also wary of hormone therapy because she’s heard there are health risks associated with it.