Hormone biosynthesis

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Contents 1 Broader Terms 2 Narrower Terms 3 Related Terms 4 Scope Note 5 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Broader Terms

biosynthesis, hormone metabolism

Narrower Terms

peptide hormone biosynthesis, steroid hormone biosynthesis

Related Terms

secretion

Scope Note

anabolic formation of hormones in organisms or living cells.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• eduSteroid hormone biosynthesis is acutely regulated by pituitary trophic hormones and other steroidogenic stimuli.
• The starting material for steroid hormone biosynthesis is cholesterol, most of which arrives at the adrenal cortex in the form of low density lipoproteins, which are taken up from blood by a process of receptor-mediated endocytosis (see top figure).
• Although the rate-limiting step in steroid hormone biosynthesis is the transfer of cholesterol from the outer to the inner mitochondrial membrane, the constitutive expression of StAR in R2C cells alone does not appear to be sufficient to elicit the extremely high steroidogenic response observed.
• " "The concentration of soy phytoestrogens that inhibited thyroid hormone biosynthesis is within the range of exposure of infants maintained on soy formula.
• In this study, we show that gibberellin (GA) hormone biosynthesis is regulated by LEC2 and FUS3 pathways.

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