The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of exogenous reproductive hormones on the local and systemic production of specific immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG antibodies after vaginal vaccination with recombinant cholera toxin subunit B (CTB). Three groups of women using either progesterone...
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We have reviewed the risk from exogenous hormones, such as oral contraceptives, supplemented estrogens, tamoxifen, synthetic anabolic steroids, including danazol, clomiphene and growth hormone, and other growth factors produced by genetic engineering because of their possible role in causing human neoplasms.
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Effects of Exogenous Hormones: A practical review for clinicians who prescribe psychotropic medication to their female patients ... The levels of hormones in HRT preparations are much lower than those in OCs. Progesterone on its own has been thought to be associated with dysphoric moods[54]; continuous combined therapy...
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The Medscape Journal ... Gonadal Steroid Hormones [adverse effects] ... 0 (Gonadal Steroid Hormones)
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Prospective study of exogenous hormone use and breast cancer in Seventh-day Adventists. ... Exogenous hormone use as either oral contraceptives (OC) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was evaluated in reference to subsequent breast cancer risk in a cohort study of 20,341 Seventh-day Adventist women,
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The study, therefore, provided an opportunity to examine the effects of exogenous hormones on the risk of colorectal cancer at different stages of a woman's ...
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The association between the use of exogenous hormones as either oral contraceptives (OC) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in relation to postmenopausal breast cancer incidence was examined in the Netherlands Cohort Study (NLCS) among 62,573 women aged 55 to 69 years.
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These results suggest protective effects for both endogenous and exogenous female hormones that operate early in the process of carcinogenesis. ...
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Exogenous GH increased plasma concentrations of GH 30-fold and IGF-I threefold. Abundances of specific mRNA in liver and muscle were measured by RNase protection assays (values are arbitrary density units). In liver, GH treatment increased GHR (6.0 vs. 9.7;
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Exogenous hormones (contraceptive hormones, HRT, ERT) may effect the cervical epithelium of various individuals. Doses with high levels of progesterone may limit maturation of squamous epithelium to the parabasal level (eg: Depo-Provera).
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