The study focuses on leptin, a hormone that helps control appetite.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

They're making that because you need this protein insulin, it's a hormone, and it's important for sugar metabolism in your body.

它们产生胰岛素蛋白是因为你需要它,胰岛素是一种激素,它在糖代谢中起着非常重要的作用

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All of the molecules are called hormones, so a hormone is another name for a ligand that operates in this endocrine fashion.

这些分子都叫做激素,那么激素就是在内分泌系统中,起作用的配体的另一种叫法

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The pump developed by researchers is a double pump - in addition to insulin, it automatically secretes glucagon, a hormone that taps glucose reserves in the liver, raising blood sugar levels when they get too low, a condition called hypoglycemia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

A hormone is just a ligand that operates in this endocrine fashion.

激素只是一种,在内分泌系统中起作用的配体

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It took several years of further experiments and analysis, but During and his colleagues ultimately concluded that the mild stress of all that activity and interaction activated a communication channel that prompts fat cells to stop releasing a hormone called leptin, which accelerates cancer growth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

Insulin is a naturally occurring hormone, it's a protein hormone that circulates in all of our bodies and regulates glucose metabolism.

胰岛素是人体自身产生的一种激素,它是一种蛋白质激素,遍布全身,并调节糖代谢

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Xenopus are very sensitive to a pregnancy hormone -- human chorionic gonadotropin.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

It has many of the opposite effects that insulin has, so not only does insulin go down and stop these behaviors but a new hormone called glucagon gets produced which reinforces that change.

它产生的很多效应都与胰岛素相反,所以不仅是胰岛素的减少,导致血糖水平停止下降,胰高血糖素这种新激素的产生,也会强化该效应

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Apical buds produce a growth hormone called auxin.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

During's field is gene therapy, so he's working on a way to recreate that effect by modifying the gene that controls the leptin hormone.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14