The following is a list of
hormone
A hormone (from the Greek participle , "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior. Hormones are require ...
s found in ''Homo sapiens''. Spelling is not uniform for many hormones. For example, current
North American and international usage uses
estrogen
Estrogen or oestrogen is a category of sex hormone responsible for the development and regulation of the female reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics. There are three major endogenous estrogens that have estrogenic hormonal ac ...
and gonadotropin, while British usage retains the Greek
digraph in oestrogen and favours the earlier spelling gonadotrophin.
Hormone listing
Steroid
References
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Human hormones
Cell signaling
Signal transduction