Sihai net: common people generally hear hormone 'turn pale', think if disease uses hormone to feel very terrible. What is hormone medicine? To say hormone medicine, our county will come to know what is hormone. The explanation in hormone textbook is: the high-efficient bioactive substance synthesized and secreted by endocrine cells of endocrine glands or organs and tissues, which transmits regulatory information between cells through body fluids. Hormone is a substance that can be produced by human body itself. It has a very detailed effect (high efficiency) when it acts on the target organ, and can regulate various physiological activities.
The normal physiological activities of human body depend on the participation of many hormones. The organs that can produce hormones are: hypothalamus, adrenal gland, pancreas, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, ovary, testis, etc. the hormones they produce are: glucocorticoid, thyroxine, insulin, androgen, estrogen, etc.
Since the human body can produce, why do we need hormone drugs?
Taking glucocorticoids as an example to explain, glucocorticoids play a very wide and complex role in the body. Under physiological conditions, glucocorticoids mainly affect the metabolism of substances; when the physiological dose (pharmacological dose) is exceeded, it not only affects the metabolism of substances, but also has the functions of anti infection, anti allergy and inhibition of immune response. So people use its characteristics to produce glucocorticoids to treat diseases.
To say hormone drugs, all of the above hormones have been produced into drugs, roughly listing some hormone drugs:
1. Glucocorticoids: hydrocortisone, cortisone, prednisone, prednisolone, methylprednisolone, triamcinolone, dexamethasone, betamethasone, budesonide, beclomethasone dipropionate, fluticasone propionate, etc.
2. Thyroxine drugs: levothyroxine sodium, thyroid tablet, levothyroxine sodium, etc.
3. Insulin drugs: aspartic insulin, recombinant insulin glargine, protamine biosynthesis of human insulin, etc.
4. Androgen drugs: testosterone propionate, danazol, methyltestosterone, etc.
5. Estrogen drugs: nilestriol, diethylstilbestrol, estradiol, etc.
6. Progesterone: medroxyprogesterone acetate, norethisterone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, etc.
Hormone drugs have a broad sense and a narrow sense. The broad sense refers to all the above hormone drugs, while the narrow sense simply refers to adrenal glucocorticoid drugs. Generally speaking, the "hormone drugs" that doctors say more often refer to the "hormone drugs" in a narrow sense.