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2. Growth hormone - Wikipedia

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   Growth hormone. 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. It is thus important in human development. GH also stimulates production of Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF ...

3. Growth hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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   Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication —it is one form of hormone therapy. Growth hormone is a peptide hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth and cell reproduction. In the past, growth hormone was extracted from human pituitary glands.

4. Saizen - Wikipedia

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   Saizen is a commercial preparation of synthetic somatropin (growth hormone, a.k.a. GH) used for growth hormone treatment.Manufactured by Merck Serono, Saizen is produced by recombinant DNA technology from a mammalian cell line (mouse C127) that was modified by the addition of the human GH gene, resulting in an identical 191-amino acid sequence and structure.

5. Decades-old human growth hormone treatments linked to five ...

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   For more information, patients treated with cadaver-derived human growth hormone in the U.S. can call the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at 1-800-860-8747 or ...

6. Somapacitan - Wikipedia

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   Somapacitan is the first human growth hormone (hGH) therapy that adults only take once a week by injection under the skin; other FDA-approved hGH formulations for adults with growth hormone deficiency must be administered daily. It contains a small non-covalent moiety that reversibly binds to serum albumin which slows down elimination.

7. Growth hormone in sports - Wikipedia

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   Growth hormones in sports refers to the use of growth hormones (GH or HGH) for athletic enhancement, as opposed to growth hormone treatment for medical therapy. Human Growth Hormone is a prescription medication in the US, meaning that its distribution and use without a prescription is illegal. [1] There is limited evidence that GH doping ...