Synthetic Hormones:

Terms Related to Synthetic Hormones

• Insect Hormones

  Hormones secreted by insects. They influence their growth and development. Also synthetic substances that act like insect hormones.

• Synthetic Progestational Hormones

  Compounds obtained by chemical synthesis that possess progestational activity, but differ in structure from naturally occurring progestational hormones.

• Substitutes, Antagonists Hormones

  A collective grouping for both naturally occurring and synthetic hormones, substitutes, and antagonists.

• Antidiuretic Hormones

  Octapeptide antidiuretic hormones released by the neurohypophysis of all vertebrates (chemical composition varies with species). They control water metabolism and balance by regulating lung, gill, ...

• Sex Hormones

  Hormones having estrogenic (female sex hormones) or androgenic (male sex hormones) activity. (Dorland, 28th ed)

• Juvenile Hormones

  Compounds, either natural or synthetic, which block development of the growing insect.