hormone
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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
CagriSema is a fixed-dose combination of two medications: cagrilintide, which mimics the natural hormone amylin, and semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
When young roosters were fed DDT, the testes made only 18 per cent of their normal growth; combs and wattles, dependent for their development upon the testicular hormone, were only a third the normal size.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing hormone
The Catcher in the Rye
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Guts
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Life Science: Human Systems
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