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13 wrz 2024 · Growth hormone, peptide hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland. It stimulates the growth of essentially all tissues of the body, including bone, and is vital for normal physical growth in children.
Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals.
16 paź 2019 · Growth hormone (GH) is an ancestral hormone secreted episodically from somatotroph cells in the anterior pituitary. Since the recognition of its multiple and complex effects in the early 1960s, the physiology and regulation of GH has become a major area of research interest in the field of endocrinology.
1 maj 2023 · The primary regulation factors are growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) produced in the hypothalamus, somatostatin, produced in various tissues throughout the body, and ghrelin, which is produced in the gastrointestinal tract. GHRH functions to promote HGH production and release.
8 lut 2024 · Growth Hormone Function. GH has direct metabolic effects on tissues by binding to cells, and has indirect effects by stimulating cells in the liver to produce insulin-like growth factors (IGFs or somatomedins). The main IGF is IGF-1.
HGH acts on many parts of the body to promote growth in children. When the growth plates in the bones (epiphyses) have fused, HGH no longer increases height, but it still has important roles. In adulthood HGH impacts the bodies metabolism (how your body turns the food you eat into energy).
16 mar 2018 · The growth hormone (GH)–insulin-like growth factor (IGF) axis consists of central neuro-anatomical, regulatory and genetic systems, and the peripheral intracellular GH signalling pathway.
