Hormones Stocks List

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Hormones Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Apr 26 NVO Novo Nordisk: Medicare Coverage To Unlock Another Big Market For Wegovy
Apr 26 NVO Stocks to watch next week: Amazon, Apple, Anglo American and Novo Nordisk
Apr 26 NVO Novo Nordisk A/S – Total number of voting rights and share capital in Novo Nordisk A/S as of 26 April 2024
Apr 25 NBIX Neurocrine: Success Continues To Roll In With Positive MDD Treatment Data
Apr 25 ASND Ascendis Pharma to Report First Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Provide Business Update on May 2, 2024
Apr 25 NVO Sanders takes aim at US drug prices of Novo’s Ozempic and Wegovy
Apr 25 NVO Zacks Industry Outlook Highlights Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Merck and AbbVie
Apr 25 PRGO Perrigo gets offer to sell its HRA Pharma rare diseases unit
Apr 25 PRGO Perrigo Receives Binding Offer to Divest its HRA Pharma Rare Diseases Business for up to €275 Million
Apr 24 NBIX Neurocrine launches CAH community website ahead of FDA filing
Apr 24 NVO Novo Nordisk (NVO) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: Here's Why
Apr 24 NVO Sector Update: Health Care Stocks Slipping Late Afternoon
Apr 24 NVO Novo Nordisk comes under Senate probe over pricing for weight loss drugs
Apr 24 NVO US Senate committee investigates pricing of Novo's Ozempic and Wegovy
Apr 24 NVO Weight Loss Leader Novo Nordisk Hits Buy Trigger In Stock Market Rebound
Apr 24 NBIX Neurocrine Biosciences upgraded at Wells Fargo on pipeline
Apr 24 NVO 3.6M Medicare patients could qualify for Wegovy coverage: report
Apr 24 NVO 4 Large Drug Stocks to Hold on to Amid Industry Challenges
Apr 24 NBIX Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth
Apr 24 NVO Novo Nordisk A/S – Reduction of the share capital
Hormones

A hormone (from the Greek participle “ὁρμῶ”, "to arouse") is any member of a class of signaling molecules produced by glands in multicellular organisms that are transported by the circulatory system to target distant organs to regulate physiology and behavior. Hormones have diverse chemical structures, mainly of three classes: eicosanoids, steroids, and amino acid/protein derivatives (amines, peptides, and proteins). The glands that secrete hormones comprise the endocrine signaling system. The term hormone is sometimes extended to include chemicals produced by cells that affect the same cell (autocrine or intracrine signalling) or nearby cells (paracrine signalling).
Hormones are used to communicate between organs and tissues for physiological regulation and behavioral activities, such as digestion, metabolism, respiration, tissue function, sensory perception, sleep, excretion, lactation, stress, growth and development, movement, reproduction, and mood. Hormones affect distant cells by binding to specific receptor proteins in the target cell resulting in a change in cell function. When a hormone binds to the receptor, it results in the activation of a signal transduction pathway that typically activates gene transcription resulting in increased expression of target proteins; non-genomic effects are more rapid, and can be synergistic with genomic effects. Amino acid–based hormones (amines and peptide or protein hormones) are water-soluble and act on the surface of target cells via second messengers; steroid hormones, being lipid-soluble, move through the plasma membranes of target cells (both cytoplasmic and nuclear) to act within their nuclei.
Hormone secretion may occur in many tissues. Endocrine glands are the cardinal example, but specialized cells in various other organs also secrete hormones. Hormone secretion occurs in response to specific biochemical signals from a wide range of regulatory systems. For instance, serum calcium concentration affects parathyroid hormone synthesis; blood sugar (serum glucose concentration) affects insulin synthesis; and because the outputs of the stomach and exocrine pancreas (the amounts of gastric juice and pancreatic juice) become the input of the small intestine, the small intestine secretes hormones to stimulate or inhibit the stomach and pancreas based on how busy it is. Regulation of hormone synthesis of gonadal hormones, adrenocortical hormones, and thyroid hormones is often dependent on complex sets of direct influence and feedback interactions involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA), -gonadal (HPG), and -thyroid (HPT) axes.
Upon secretion, certain hormones, including protein hormones and catecholamines, are water-soluble and are thus readily transported through the circulatory system. Other hormones, including steroid and thyroid hormones, are lipid-soluble; to allow for their widespread distribution, these hormones must bond to carrier plasma glycoproteins (e.g., thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG)) to form ligand-protein complexes. Some hormones are completely active when released into the bloodstream (as is the case for insulin and growth hormones), while others are prohormones that must be activated in specific cells through a series of activation steps that are commonly highly regulated. The endocrine system secretes hormones directly into the bloodstream, typically via fenestrated capillaries, whereas the exocrine system secretes its hormones indirectly using ducts. Hormones with paracrine function diffuse through the interstitial spaces to nearby target tissue.

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