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  2. Growth hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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    Growth hormone (GH l) is also called somatotropin (British: somatotrophin). The human form of growth hormone is known as human growth hormone, or hGH (ovine growth hormone, or sheep growth hormone, is abbreviated oGH). GH can refer either to the natural hormone produced by the pituitary (somatotropin), or biosynthetic GH for therapy. [citation ...

  3. HGH controversies - Wikipedia

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    Claims of exaggerated, misleading, or unfounded assertions that growth hormone treatment safely and effectively slows or reverses the effects of aging. The sale of products that fraudulently or misleadingly purport to be growth hormone or to increase the user's own secretion of natural human growth hormone to a beneficial degree.

  4. Growth hormone - Wikipedia

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    Genentech pioneered the use of recombinant human growth hormone for human therapy, which was approved by the FDA in 1985. [citation needed] Prior to its production by recombinant DNA technology, growth hormone used to treat deficiencies was extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. Attempts to create a wholly synthetic HGH failed.

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

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    Cadaver-derived growth hormone was given to 27,000 children worldwide from 1959 to 1985, according to the new study, including about 7,700 patients in the United States. Doctors used hormones ...

  6. Somatrem - Wikipedia

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    Somatrem is a recombinant human growth hormone used for the treatment of short stature due to decreased or absent secretion of endogenous growth hormone. Somatrem was first marketed under the brand name Protropin by Genentech in 1985. [ 2 ]

  7. Acromegaly - Wikipedia

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    The latest development in the medical treatment of acromegaly is the use of growth hormone receptor antagonists. The only available member of this family is pegvisomant (Somavert). By blocking the action of the endogenous growth hormone molecules, this compound is able to control the disease activity of acromegaly in virtually everyone with ...

  8. Though hormone replacement therapy has been a popular form of treatment for decades, used to offset symptoms of menopause in women and andropause (aging-related hormone changes) in men, hormone ...

  9. Tom Perls - Wikipedia

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    Perls is a prominent critic of "hormone replacement therapy" including growth hormone and testosterone for "anti-aging" and "age-management". [4] He is author of the website hghwatch.com. [ 5 ] and he has testified before the U.S. Congress, [ 6 ] as well as provided written testimony for the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding illegal ...