The agonistic effects of endogenous hormones can also be mimicked by certain synthetic ligands, for example, the glucocorticoid receptor anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone.
Additionally uterine circulation and endogenous hormones cause systemic vascular resistance to decrease and a disproportionately lowering of diastolic blood pressure causes a wide pulse pressure.
Foth D, Nawroth F. Effect of soy supplementation on endogenous hormones in postmenopausal women.
While endogenous estrogenic hormones such as estradiol are steroids, equol is a nonsteroidal estrogen.
Several additional observations led to the view that the circulating ouabain in humans was an endogenous hormone.
They tested to see if administering this endogenous hormone to the body directly could be an effective means of sunless tanning.
However, no structural crystallographic evidence has been used to support the idea that these molecules are actually identical to endogenous human hormones.
These may reflect endogenous or environmental hormones.
The primary endogenous mineralocorticoid is aldosterone, although a number of other endogenous hormones (including progesterone and deoxycorticosterone) have mineralocorticoid function.
Effect of soy protein on endogenous hormones in postmenopausal women.