Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of androgens to estrogens.
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- noun biochemistry An
enzyme that selectively increases thearomaticity ofandrogen hormones
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When women's ovaries stop producing estrogen, he said, the body tries to compensate with an enzyme called aromatase, which converts testosterone into a carcinogenic form of estrogen in fat tissue.
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Drugs like Tamoxifen and the newer drugs that are often called aromatase inhibitors.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Not only that, but body fat contains an enzyme called aromatase, which produces oestrogen from testosterone.
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This is felt especially among girls as it stimulates secretion of an enzyme called aromatase, which turns male hormones into female hormones.
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This is felt especially among girls as it stimulates secretion of an enzyme called aromatase, which turns male hormones into female hormones.
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This is felt especially among girls as it stimulates secretion of an enzyme called aromatase, which turns male hormones into female hormones.
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Their mechanism of action is to inhibit an enzyme called aromatase, which converts androgens to estrogens in the peripheral tissues by a reaction that looks like this in the case of testosterone being converted to estradiol:
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Older, postmenopausal women are now often prescribed a newer class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors, which block estrogen released in body fat, experts said.
Tamoxifen wards off breast cancer's return for more than a decade 2011
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The participants were post-menopausal and had become resistant to certain hormone drugs called aromatase inhibitors that block production of estrogen.
Drugs Keep Tumors at Bay Ron Winslow 2011
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It was the first test in healthy women of newer hormone-blocking pills called aromatase inhibitors, sold as Arimidex, Femara and Aromasin, and in generic form.
Breast Cancer Risk May Be Cut With Hormone-Blocker Aromasin In Some Groups The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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