Groats are used in soups and porridges: steel-cut oats is simply another name for sliced oat groats. Groats of many cereals are the basis of kasha, a porridge-like staple meal of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Most often, abnormal uterine bleeding is caused by a hormone imbalance. When hormones are the cause, doctors call the problem dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) . DUB is more common in teenagers or in women who are approaching menopause.
Somatostatin regulates the levels of a variety of other hormones in the blood. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are either functional (produce hormones) or nonfunctional (produce no hormones). Functional neuroendocrine tumors cause the pancreas to overproduce hormones consequently causing hormone-related symptoms. The majority of PNETs are nonfunctional tumors.