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2. 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.

3. Growth hormone - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. 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 ...

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. Isolated growth hormone deficiency - Wikipedia

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   These people typically exhibit growth failure in their early to mid-childhood years. [4] Similar to type II isolated growth hormone deficiency, type III is characterized by extremely low growth hormone levels and variable degrees of short height in the affected individuals. Type III growth failure typically manifests in early to mid-childhood.

7. Insulin-like growth factor 1 - Wikipedia

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   It is a key mediator of anabolic activities in numerous tissues and cells, such as growth hormone-stimulated growth, metabolism and protein translation. [17] Due to its participation in the GH-IGF-1 axis it contributes among other things to the maintenance of muscle strength, muscle mass, development of the skeleton and is a key factor in brain ...