Hormones Overview

A hormone is a chemical that is made by specialist cells, usually within an endocrine gland, and it is released into the bloodstream to send a message to another part of the body. In fact, it is often referred to as a ‘chemical messenger’.

Moreover, hormones are found in all multicellular organisms, and their role is to provide an internal communication system between cells located in distant parts of the body.

Specifically, in the human body, hormones are used for two types of communication. First, the first is for communication between two endocrine glands, where one gland releases a hormone that stimulates another target gland to change the levels of hormones that it is releasing.

On the other hand, the second is between an endocrine gland and a target organ, for example, when the pancreas releases insulin which causes muscle and fat cells to take up glucose from the bloodstream.

Because hormones are released into the bloodstream and can therefore be carried around the entire body, they can perform both of these actions on many different targets. Consequently, the complex interplay between the glands, hormones, and other target organs is referred to as the endocrine system. Ultimately, hormones affect many physiological activities including growth, metabolism, appetite, puberty, and fertility.

Endocrine Glands

Endocrine glands, which are special groups of cells, make hormones. Specifically, the major endocrine glands are the pituitary, pineal, thymus, thyroid, adrenal glands, and pancreas. Furthermore, men produce hormones in their testes and women produce them in their ovaries.

Hormones are powerful. Indeed, it takes only a tiny amount to cause big changes in cells or even your whole body. Consequently, that is why too much or too little of a certain hormone can be serious.

In fact, laboratory tests can measure the hormone levels in your blood, urine, or saliva. Thus, your health care provider may perform these tests if you have symptoms of a hormone disorder. For instance, home pregnancy tests are similar; they test for pregnancy hormones in your urine.

Types of Hormones

Following are different types of hormones, which are responsible for different functions in the body:

Firstly, Adrenaline

Additionally, Adrenocorticotropic hormone

Moreover, Aldosterone

Furthermore, Androstenedione

In addition, Angiotensin

Similarly, Anti-diuretic hormone

Also, Anti-Mullerian hormone

Next, Calcitonin

Subsequently, Cholecystokinin

Then, Corticotrophin-releasing hormone

Consequently, Cortisol

As a result, Dehydroepiandrosterone

In particular, Erythropoietin

Following that, Follicle stimulating hormone

Likewise, Gastrin

Furthermore, Ghrelin

On the other hand, Glucagon

Additionally, Glucagon-like peptide 1

Moreover, Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide

Furthermore, Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone

In the same way, Growth hormone

Subsequently, Growth hormone-releasing hormone

Also, Human chronic gonadotrophin

Next, Insulin

Moreover, Kisspeptin

Additionally, Leptin

Following that, Luteinising hormone

Furthermore, Melanocyte-stimulating hormone

Additionally, Melatonin

In particular, Oestradiol

Moreover, Oestriol

Also, Oestrone

Next, Oxytocin

Consequently, Parathyroid hormone

Furthermore, Peptide YY

In addition, Progesterone

Additionally, Prolactin

Moreover, Prostaglandins

Next, Relaxin

As a result, Somatostatin

Likewise, Testosterone

Subsequently, Thyroid stimulating hormone

Then, Thyrotropin-releasing hormone

Finally, Thyroxine

In conclusion, Triodothyronine

Lastly, Vitamin-D

 

Biospecimens

biospecimens

Bay Biosciences is a global leader in providing researchers with high quality, clinical grade, fully characterized human tissue samples, bio-specimens, and human bio-fluid collections.

Moreover, human biospecimens are available including tumor tissue, serum, plasma and PBMC samples from most other therapeutic areas.

Furthermore, Bay Biosciences maintains and manages its own biorepository, the human tissue bank (biobank) consisting of thousands of diseased samples (specimens) and likewise normal healthy donors for controls. Additionally, available in all formats and types.

In fact, our biobank procures and stores fully consented, de-identified and institutional review boards (IRB) approved human tissue samples, human biofluids such as serum samples, plasma samples from various diseases and matched controls.

Also, all our human tissue collections, human biospecimens and human biofluids are provided with detailed, samples associated patient’s clinical data.

In fact, this critical patient’s clinical data includes information relating to their past and current disease, treatment history, lifestyle choices, biomarkers, and genetic information.

Additionally, researchers find the patient’s data associated with the human biospecimens extremely valuable and use it to help identify new effective treatments (drug discovery & development) in oncology, as well as in other therapeutic areas and diseases.

Bay Biosciences banks wide variety of human tissue samples and human biological samples, including fresh frozen human biospecimens cryogenically preserved at – 80°C.

For example fresh frozen tissue samples, tumor tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE), tissue slides, with matching human bio-fluids, whole blood and blood-derived products such as human serum, human plasma and human PBMCs.

Bay Biosciences is a global leader in collecting and providing human tissue samples according to the specified requirements and customized, tailor-made collection protocols.

Please contact us anytime to discuss your special research projects and customized human tissue sample requirements.

Types of Biospecimens

Bay Biosciences provides human tissue samples (human specimens) and human biofluids from diseased and normal healthy donors which includes:

Moreover, we can also procure most human biospecimens and human biofluids, special collections and requests for human samples that are difficult to find. All our human tissue samples and human biofluids are procured through IRB-approved clinical protocols and procedures.

In addition to the standard processing protocols, Bay Biosciences can also provide human biofluids such as  human plasma, human serum, and human PBMCs bio-fluid samples using custom processing protocols; you buy donor-specific collections in higher volumes and specified sample aliquots from us.

Bay Biosciences also provides human biospecimens from normal healthy donors; volunteers, for controls and clinical research, Contact us Now.