| growth f. |
an imprecise term denoting any of numerous substances that promote normal or pathological growth of cells or tissue, including the epidermal growth factors, insulin-like growth factors, nerve growth factors, platelet-derived growth factors, and transforming growth factors.
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| growth h. |
1. any of several related polypeptide hormones secreted episodically by the adenohypophysis that affect protein, carbohydrate, and lipid metabolism and control the rate of skeletal and visceral growth; their secretion is in part controlled by the hypothalamus. The major form of human growth hormone (hGH) is a single chain of 191 amino acids (about 21,500 daltons). Called also somatotrophin, somatotropin, and somatotrophic or somatotropic h. 2. a preparation of human growth hormone for pharmaceutical use; see somatropin and somatrem. 3. any substance that stimulates growth, such as a growth factor (q.v.).
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| growth h. release–inhibiting hormone |
somatostatin.
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| growth h.–releasing hormone |
a neuropeptide elaborated in the hypothalamus that binds to specific receptors on the somatotrophs of the adenohypophysis and stimulates the secretion of growth hormone. Called also somatocrinin, somatoliberin, and somatotropin-releasing h.
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| growth hormone cell a. |
growth hormone–secreting a.
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