Although the effects of estrogen on sexual behavior in mammals are well known, its role on other types of behavior, including cognition, have only recently been recognized. This review summarizes work ...

Hormones get a bad rap for a variety of conditions, from the rapid, awkward changes we experience at puberty to the mood swings associated with premenstrual syndrome. But without them, we’d never grow ...

Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve lung function and other outcomes in preterm infants, researchers have found in an animal study. Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve ...

Estrogens are important endocrine hormones that control physiological functions in reproductive organs, and play a pivotal role in the generation and progression of breast cancer. Therapeutic drugs ...

Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the skin modestly improved sexual function in early postmenopausal women, according to an article. Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the ...

From human development to certain diseases developing, hormones can affect the body in several ways. “Hormones are chemical messengers that are normally created in one part of the body and go to ...

The endocrine system is the name for the glands that produce hormones in a person’s body. These glands include the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, and adrenal gland. The endocrine system produces ...

In ovulating women with obesity, estrogen priming appears to yield improvements in hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis function and proinflammatory profiles, according to recent findings. Alex J.

Hormones function as the body’s chemical messengers, orchestrating nearly every physiological process from metabolism and mood to reproduction and sleep. When these powerful compounds fall out of ...

Male hormone levels maintain day-to-day stability while female hormones experience continuous changes throughout both the menstrual cycle and various life stages.

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2009;5(5):507-520. Furthermore, both physiologically low and moderate doses of estradiol replacement improved the capability of OVX rats to handle increasing amounts of WM ...

Transdermal estrogen therapy delivered through the skin modestly improved sexual function in early postmenopausal women, according to an article published by JAMA Internal Medicine. Declining estrogen ...