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Bisphenol-A is also a very weak estrogen-like compound that binds weakly to a set of hormone receptors.
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Without male hormone receptors to respond to testosterone, the researchers started to suspect androgen receptors were not the players they had been assumed to be.
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Weiss, a breast cancer oncologist, suggested that everyday pollutants such as chemicals including bisphenol A and dioxins could bombard hormone receptors, causing abnormalities in the breast.
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Because male-typical behaviours developed as the result of a burst of testosterone, but in the absence of receptors for the hormone, the researchers suspect that the testosterone in the surge is being converted into oestrogen to carry out the newborn sexual-differentiation.
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About two-thirds of tumors have estrogen receptors that make them vulnerable to hormone-blocking medications.
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This drug, not yet approved for prescription, works by gumming up testosterone receptors on the cancer cells' surfaces, so they cannot react to the hormone.
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These receptors, or tiny sensors on cells, interact with the fight-or-flight hormone adrenalin (also called epinephrine), dopamine, serotonin, light, flavor and odor.
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"There are special receptors on the fat cells deep inside the abdomen which are specifically intended to hook up with stress hormone -- and stress hormone stimulates them to accept fat, " said Peeke, a former senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health.
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It also cuts the lines of communication between any receptors which are still activated and the cell nucleus, so that the nucleus cannot take instructions from the hormone.
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