Word: glands
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...experimental treatment with perhaps fewer ill effects involves a synthetic substance called nafarelin, similar to gonadotropin-relea sing hormone. Normally GnRH is released in bursts by the hypothalamus gland, eventually triggering the process of ovulation. But "if the GnRH stimulation is given continuously instead of in pulses," explains Dr. Robert Jaffe of the University of California, San Francisco, "the whole (ovulatory) system shuts off," and the endometrial implants "virtually melt away...
...true anorexic won't call us [EPO]," says Mihelich. "Characteristic of the disorder is a vehement denial of thinness. Their perception is skewed. They really see themselves as big when they are so painfully small. It has to do with the hypothalmus gland in the brain which is affected by starvation," says Mihelich...
...particularly that involving testosterone, which is present, though in different amounts, in both men and women. Normally, the hypo thalamus, the part of the brain that regulates many of the body's func tions, "tastes" the testosterone levels; if it finds them too low, it signals the pituitary gland to trigger increased production...
...results can be traumatic. Many men experience atrophy, or shrinking, of the testicles, falling sperm counts, tempo rary infertility and a lessening of sexual desire; some men grow breasts, while others may develop enlargement of the prostate gland, a painful condition not usually found in men under 50. Women who take too many steroids can develop male sexual characteristics. Some grow hair on their chests and faces and lose hair from their heads; many experience abnormal enlargement of the clitoris. Some cease to ovulate and menstruate, sometimes permanently...
...surgical castration and radical removal of the prostate. I thought, 'Jesus... they're going to turn me into a 6-ft. eunuch!' " At Memorial, however, a surgeon decided on an experimental procedure: inserting capsules of radioactive iodine into Alexion's prostate instead of removing the gland. It worked...