Hormonal profile

However, not all EDs with a high log possess or require the ability to bioaccnmulate in order to be biologically active. For example, phthalate plasticisers, chlorophenols from Kraft mill effluents and natural or synthetic hormones can influence an organism s hormone profile and affect reproductive function and immune response without exhibiting bioaccnmiilation. ... 

DUNCAN M, MERZ-DEMLOW E, XU X, PHIPPS w R and KURZER M s (2000) Premenopausal equol excretors show plasma hormone profiles associated with lowered risk of breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 9, 581-6. 

Canfi, A., R. Chayoth, S. Weill, and E. Bedrak. 1990. The reproductive system of male rats exposed to very low doses of ionizing radiation. 1. Hormonal profile of animals exposed after sexual maturity. Andrologia 22 129-136. 

Subhan F, Tahir F, Ahmad R, Khan ZD (1995) Oligospermia and its relation with hormonal profile. J Pak Med Assoc 45 246-247... 

Serum steroid hormonal profiles by reversed-phased liquid chromatography in patients with 17a-hydroxylase deficiency. (158)... 

Measured as part of a CAH panel by Minutti et al. [58], using the transition 287—>97, see above ("17-Hydroxyprogesterone ). They stress the added specificity of CAH detection in second-tier analysis for CAH when androstenedione is measured as well as 17-hydroxyprogesterone. This is also measured commercially by Quest Diagnostics and included in the Guo et al. hormonal profile [24, 25] (see Hormonal Steroid Profiles below). 

Sod-Moriah, U.A., Shemi. D., Potashnik, G. Kaplanski, J. (1990) Age-dependent differences in the effects of l,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) on fertility, sperm count, testicular histology and hormonal profile in rats. Andrologia, 22, 455-462... 

Fecundity can be estimated or approximated by assessing reproductive hormonal profiles of men and women, semen quality in men, or menstruation in women or by measuring time to pregnancy for couples interested in becoming pregnant. Time to pregnancy can be measured in calendar months or menstrual cycles, depending upon the study population, and has been shown to be a reasonable... 

The plant is reported to have an effect on the ovarian hormone profile and reproductive performance of animals (Mehrotra et al., 2003, 2005). 

Mehrotra, S., Singh, S.K., Umashankar and Agarwal, S.K. (2005) Effect of certain indigenous medicinal plants on ovarian hormone profile and reproductive performance in anestrus cattle. Indian Journal of Animal Reproduction 26, 20-23. 

Agrawal, A. K., and Shapiro, B. H. Gender, age and dose effects of neonatally administered aspartate on the sexually dimorphic plasma growth hormone profiles regulating expression of the rat sex-dependent hepatic CYP isoforms. Drug Metab. Disp. 25, 1249-1256,... 

H14. Holehan, A. M., and Merry, B. J., Modification of the oestrous cycle hormonal profile by dietary restriction. Mech. Ageing Dev. 32, 63-76 (1985). 

K27. Kumar, V. L., Wadhwa, S. N., Kumar, V., and Farooq, A., Androgen, estrogen, and progesterone receptor content and serum hormone profiles in patients with benign hypertrophy and carcinoma of the prostate. J. Surg. Oncol. 44, 122-128 (1990). 

Kubista E, Muller G, Spona J. Traitement de la mastopathie avec mastodynie cycliqu. Resultats cliniques et profiles hormonaux. [Treatment of mastopathy with mastalgia. Clinical results and hormonal profiles]. Rev Fr Gynecol Obstet 1987 82 221-227. 

Before we go any further it is absolutely paramount that you realize that age is a man made thing and that the body solely knows Action/Reaction to the experiences one provides. The only thing that has changed in your life is your hormone profile and the way your body appears is directly respondent to it. But until one forgoes the belief that age is a disease-like thing that creeps upon the body and spirit age will win over fact. 

A man s musculature is affected by several hormones and hormone-like substances. Some have anabolic (meaning to add) effects upon muscle tissue while being catabolic (meaning to subtract) to adipose (fat) tissue. Others are anabolic toward adipose tissue while having a muscle wasting effect. Still others alter the activity of different hormones by mediating hormonal effects. It is the ratio of one hormone to the others that we refer to as a hormone profile. 

As we age our bodies become less effective at handling metabolic events such as simple digestion and assimilation of food. This is not because we are "getting old" as some may suggest, but instead is directly respondent to the life we have lived and the hormone profiles our bodies produce as a result. Due to the increase in fast foods containing trans-fats (any man-made... 

TABLE 10.5 Hormonal Profiles of Gastrointestinal Endocrine Tumors ... 

Prepurified cultures can be considered a golden standard for the in vitro characteristics and/or for the in vitro behavior of defined cell-types. Thus, antigen characteristics, transport processes and hormone profiles of proximal tubule, distal tubule and collecting duct cells have been characterized by Wilson et al. [87] (microdissection), Baer et al. [103] (MACS) and Van Der Biest et al. [107] (FACS) (Table 2). 

The MDCK cell hne, for example, is one of the most widely employed cell hnes in basic renal epithelial research. These MDCK cells show a hormonal profile consistent with collecting duct origin, express the furo-semide-sensitive Na /K /2Q" symporter, consistent with TAL origin, and express significant amounts of brush-border hydrolases (tnAP and LAP), consistent with PT origin [127,129,130]. 

The most important general idea about the fetal environment is that any impact that results in physiological stress for the fetus can be a risk factor for adverse developmental and health outcomes. This is clear only from animal experiments. For humans, on whom comparable experiments are not possible, we must depend on empirical data, on correlations, and on deductions. Moreover, because the physiology, chemistry, hormone profile, and so on of the embryo and fetus are continually changing during gestation, the developmental consequences of an environmental impact depend on when it occurs, and on its duration, severity, and type. 

Middle-age alterations in the sexually dimorphic plasma growth hormone profiles Involvement of growth hormone-releasing factor and effects on cytochrome p450 expression. Drug Melab. Dispos. 30, 141-147. 

Pampori, N.A. and B.H. Shapiro (1999). Gender differences in the responsiveness of the sex-dependent isoforms of hepatic P450 to the feminine plasma growth hormone profile. Endocrinology 140, 1245-1254. 

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