Hormone, Diabetes and Metabolism Terms

Treatment to suppress or block the production or action of male hormones.

Treatment to suppress or block the production or action of male hormones.

Describes cells that have a protein that binds to androgens (male hormones).

Treatment to suppress or block the production or action of male hormones.

Describes the ability of tumor cells to grow in the absence of androgens (hormones that promote the development and maintenance of male sex characteristics).

A hormone made from testosterone in the prostate, testes, and certain other tissues.

A drug that stops male hormones being heard, either by blocking the receiver or by cutting off the supply.

Treatment with drugs used to block production or interfere with the action of male sex hormones.

A substance that keeps cells from making or using estrogen (a hormone that plays a role in female sex characteristics, the menstrual cycle, and pregnancy).

Treatment with drugs, surgery, or radiation in order to block the production or action of a hormone.

Antioxidants are substances that neutralize unstable molecules called free radicals, though supplement studies have not consistently shown they prevent disease.

A substance that prevents cells from making or using progesterone (a hormone that plays a role in the menstrual cycle and pregnancy).

A drug used to control the amount of sugar in the blood of patients with diabetes mellitus.

A laboratory label from a tissue sample, marking cells that carry the docking site androgens use to send growth signals.

Lowering the estrogen supply is not the same as blocking its receptor, and that difference decides who the drug can help.

A rare type of ovarian tumor in which the tumor cells secrete a male sex hormone.

Three letters for the busiest molecule in biology, though in a report on an implanted heart device the same abbreviation means something else entirely.

An autoimmune condition of the thyroid gland (a gland located beneath the larynx).

A genetic condition that causes unusual facial features and disorders of the skin, bones, nervous system, eyes, and endocrine glands.

An abnormal mass that grows in the beta cells of the pancreas that make insulin.