Steroid Hormones
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Hormones & the Brain — Behavioral Neuroscience▶ 19:04The text distinguishes between two main classes of hormones,protein hormones and steroid hormonesAnd they work completely different waysSignal Transduction — Medical Physiology: A Cellular And Molecular Approaoch▶ 3:33Peptides and proteins, like insulin or growth factorsSteroid hormones, like estrogen or testosteroneAnd even really small molecules, amino acids, nucleotides, even ions like calcium or gases like nitric oxide connect the signalsCholesterol: Absorption, Synthesis, Metabolism, and Fate — Marks' Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach▶ 1:32It's also the precursor, the starting material, for really vital compounds, bile salts, for digestion,and all the steroid hormonesAll of them