Assertion: steroid | /r/HasProperty | glucocorticoid
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text: Steroid hormone: Glucocorticoids & Androgens
text: It has been hypothesized that this reduction in muscle breakdown may occur through AAS inhibiting the action of other steroid hormones called glucocorticoids that promote the breakdown of muscles.
text: Cortisol is a steroid hormone, one of the glucocorticoids, made in the cortex of the adrenal glands and then released into the blood, which transports it all round the body.
text: The major reasons are serum steroid hormones (glucocorticoids, estrogen, progesterone, and androgen) disorder and ovarian lesions (ovarian dysfunction and follicle dysplasia) caused by abnormal expression of steroid hormone receptors in follicles .
text: The adrenal cortex is responsible for production of three major classes of steroid hormones: glucocorticoids, which regulate carbohydrate metabolism; mineralocorticoids, which regulate the body levels of sodium and potassium; and androgens, whose actions are similar to that of steroids produced by the male gonads.