Previous work on the GH/IGF-I system The growth hormone /insuiin growth factor 1 (GH/IGF-l) axis is the main regulator of tissue mass during early life and JGF 1 is one of the main growth factors that ...

In April, 1985, the FDA banned the distribution of pituitary growth hormone (hGH) because of the possibility that it was contaminated by a “slow virus”. All parents of children receiving hGH ...

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a hormone that’s essential to our development. Most people produce enough HGH throughout their lifetime. But for those with a deficiency in growth hormone (or a few ...

The selective weed killer contains a growth hormone that causes the weeds to grow too quickly and die. Because the weeds have broader leaves, the weed killer is absorbed in larger quantities by ...

A mathematical model suggests that existing HPA-targeting drugs failed in clinical trials for mood disorders because the ...

A paracrine hormone of skeletal muscle acts as an endocrine signal for the synthesis of a sex hormone. Scientists at McGill ...

The principal peripheral effectors are glucocorticoids, which are regulated by the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis ... the growth, reproductive and thyroid-hormone axes, as well as ...

Mod GRF is theorized to influence the hypothalamic-pituitary axis by mimicking GHRH's signaling properties, thereby interacting with receptors in the anterior pituitary. Studies suggest that this ...