What Is Hormone Metabolism?
The length of time it takes for hormones to metabolize to disappear (or disappear biological activity) after they are secreted into the blood varies. In order to indicate the rate of hormone renewal, the time during which hormone activity disappears in the blood is generally used, which is called half-life, as a measure.
Hormone metabolism
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- Chinese name
- Hormone metabolism
- half life
- Different from action speed and action duration
- Introduction
- Hormones secrete into the blood, undergo metabolism and disappear
- Disappear way
- Can be diluted by blood and taken up by tissue
- The length of time it takes for hormones to metabolize to disappear (or disappear biological activity) after they are secreted into the blood varies. In order to indicate the rate of hormone renewal, the time during which hormone activity disappears in the blood is generally used, which is called half-life, as a measure.
- Some hormones have a half-life of just a few seconds; others can last up to several days.
- The half-life must be distinguished from the rate of action and duration of action. The speed of hormone action depends on how it works; the duration of action depends on whether hormone secretion continues. The disappearance of hormones can be diluted by blood, taken up by tissues, metabolized and inactivated via liver and kidney, and excreted with urine and feces.