"Human Growth Hormone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A 191-amino acid polypeptide hormone secreted by the human adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR), also known as GH or somatotropin. Synthetic growth hormone, termed somatropin, has replaced the natural form in therapeutic usage such as treatment of dwarfism in children with growth hormone deficiency.
Descriptor ID |
D019382
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MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.699.631.525.425.875 D12.644.548.691.525.425.875
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Concept/Terms |
Human Growth Hormone- Human Growth Hormone
- Growth Hormone, Human
- hGH (Human Growth Hormone)
- Somatropin (Human)
- Somatotropin (Human)
- Somatropin
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1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Human Growth Hormone" by people in Profiles.
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Development of a novel patient-reported measure for acromegaly: the Acro-TSQ. Pituitary. 2019 Dec; 22(6):581-593.
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Role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound to define prognosis and predict response to biotherapy in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. J Endocrinol Invest. 2017 Dec; 40(12):1373-1380.
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Transcriptional activation by growth hormone of HNF-6-regulated hepatic genes, a potential mechanism for improved liver repair during biliary injury in mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2008 Aug; 295(2):G357-66.
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Lack of reduction in body fat after treatment with insulin-like growth factor-I in two children with growth hormone gene deletions. J Endocrinol Invest. 2000 Apr; 23(4):258-62.
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Increased height in patients with medulloblastomas. Neurosurgery. 1997 Sep; 41(3):561-5; discussion 565-6.