Title: Hormones and disease: What happens when things go wrong?
Abstract: This chapter discusses hormones and disease. All of the diseases associated with hormones result from either too much hormone activity or too little. Too much hormone activity is usually the result of a disorder in the gland that produces the hormone, often due to uncontrolled growth of the gland. Meanwhile, too little hormone activity can be a fault in hormone production or it can be a problem with hormone action, where the hormone receptor does not work properly. Endocrine disease can have many causes, including autoimmune disease, defects in the receptor, enzyme defects, and hormone resistance syndromes. Some forms of cancer are also dependent on hormones and can be treated by blocking either production or action of the hormone.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-06-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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