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Growth hormone

The main systemic driver of height, how much it adds as a drug, its risks, and the drugs that make the pituitary release more of its own.

HormonesUpdated

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Growth hormone: released by the pituitary in pulses, mostly at night. The liver turns it into IGF-1, which reaches the growth plate, and it also acts on the plate directly. directly tooPituitaryPulsesLiverGrowth platemostly at nightmakes IGF-1

Pituitary somatotroph hormone; the principal endocrine regulator of postnatal linear growth.

In this article

  • Before and after the growth plates close
  • Height gained in treated children
  • Compounds
  • Secretagogues: making the body release more
  • GHRH agonists
  • Ghrelin receptor agonists
  • Summary

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