The hormone, usually an acetic acid, stimulates the cutting to grow into a clone.

Several hormones may stimulate platelet activating factor biosynthesis in vitro.

In this species, juvenile hormone, a major regulatory insect hormone, stimulates begging and growth.

Those hormones can stimulate a wide spectrum of effects, raising blood pressure, quickening the heart beat and dilating the pupils.

In the male this hormone stimulates those cells which form testosterone.

These latter two hormones stimulate the testis to synthesize testosterone.

It may be that the extra hormones stimulate the virus, he said, or that some women on the pill have more sexual partners.

As a wound healing agent, the hormone may stimulate collagen and other skin tissue to grow more rapidly.

Patients with low neutrophil counts may be given filgrastim or a similar hormone to stimulate production of white blood cells.