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hormone

[hawr-mohn] / ˈhɔr moʊn /


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Their results show that the hormone acts through the hindbrain, which is located in the lower back part of the brain.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

The popular medicines remove feelings of hunger by acting like a natural gut hormone that makes users feel full.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Those drugs also target the GIP hormone in addition to GLP-1.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Subjects in studies of six individual peptides — growth hormone releasing peptide-2, ibutamoren mesylate, ipamorelin, CJC-1295, AOD-9604 and melanotan II — experienced adverse events, including death.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

He’s working on something else: a growth hormone that will throw their systems out of whack and make them pupate before they’re supposed to.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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