How to Use prostaglandin in a Sentence

prostaglandin

noun
  • When the body has an abundance of prostaglandins, cramping feels worse.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
  • These include leukotrienes, prostaglandins, and histamines.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Misoprostol is a prostaglandin.
    — Christine Henneberg, STAT, 15 May 2026
  • NSAIDs stop your body from making prostaglandins, which curbs swelling and pain.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 7 May 2024
  • The most likely cause is having too many prostaglandins, chemicals that cause the uterus to contract.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
  • This results in the reduction of prostaglandins, which play a key role in pain and inflammation.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The prevailing theory behind cramps is a group of compounds called prostaglandins.
    — Calli McMurray, STAT, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Its active ingredient is a prostaglandin analog that’s been used for years to treat glaucoma.
    — Jolene Edgar, Town & Country, 8 June 2017
  • This is led by a peptide trio and vegan keratin instead of prostaglandin to promote longer, stronger, thicker hairs.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • She is laid out on a gurney, breathing in and out as the nurse flicks the needle, shooting oxytocin, prostaglandins into her blood-stream.
    — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • However, prostaglandins also help protect the lining of the stomach from damage caused by the acid in it that helps break down food.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 10 July 2023
  • Healy says to avoid hormone ingredients, sometimes listed as prostaglandins.
    — Jesa Marie Calaor, ELLE, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Seven days after, the researchers injected prostaglandin to initiate a new run and get her into heat.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Several of these compounds, such as prostaglandins, are known to trigger sickness behaviors.
    — Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The award-winning Eyelash Growth Serum is prostaglandin-free for longer, fuller lashes and brows in as few as four weeks.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Your period can cause diarrhea because of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances from the cells in the lining of your uterus.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • It is formulated with prostaglandin analogue, which studies show can improve hair length and density.
    — Neha Tandon, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
  • What's new in eyelashes is a synthetic prostaglandin analog called bimatoprost.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Higher levels of prostaglandins are associated with more severe cramps.
    — Ashley Martens, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • This stops the production of prostaglandins—hormone-like substances that are needed to produce inflammation and pain.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The lash-growth treatment, Latisse, for example, contains a prostaglandin analog called bimatoprost.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Saedi recommends prostaglandin analogs to help promote growth or supplementing your diet with biotin.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Diligently paint on that prostaglandin analog, in the form of a product like Latisse, and then clamp on Beldue's contraption.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Misoprostol is a prostaglandin – a compound that has hormone-like effects on the body – that helps soften and dilate the cervix to expel the pregnancy.
    — Grace Shih, Chron, 27 July 2022
  • This mechanism decreases prostaglandins in the central nervous system.
    — Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Misoprostol is a prostaglandin – a compound that has hormone-like effects on the body – that helps soften and dilate the cervix to expel the pregnancy.
    — Grace Shih, The Conversation, 22 July 2022
  • It is then followed by misoprostol, a prostaglandin that induces uterine contractions, which expel the pregnancy.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • With his colleagues, he was credited with opening up the study of prostaglandins and, along with it, a broad array of applications in medical science.
    — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • This mechanism decreases the effect of prostaglandins and relieves pain and inflammation.
    — Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Past studies have linked a labor-inducing chemical produced by oral bacteria, called prostaglandin, to premature births and low birth weight.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2014

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