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Hormones are regulatory substances. They stimulate, inhibit, or modulate physiological processes throughout the body. Growth and development and normal bodily functions would be impossible without these products of the endocrine system.
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Lerner, L.J. (1992). Introduction. In: Li, J.J., Nandi, S., Li, S.A. (eds) Hormonal Carcinogenesis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9208-8_16
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