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2. What does growth hormone therapy treat? What an ... - AOL

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   Growth hormone treatment is a safe and effective therapy that’s often used to treat children and adults with a deficiency in human growth hormone (also known as HGH or somatropin).

3. Growth hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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   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. Growth hormone is now produced by recombinant DNA technology and is prescribed for a variety of reasons. GH therapy has been a focus of social and ethical ...

4. Pfizer-OPKO's growth hormone drug gets US approval in kids - AOL

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   The injectable hormone therapy, to be sold under brand name Ngenla, was approved for the treatment of pediatric patients aged three years Pfizer-OPKO's growth hormone drug gets US approval in kids ...

5. CJC-1295 - Wikipedia

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   CJC-1295 may markedly increase plasma growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) levels in animals and humans. [1] [2] [3] [5] With a single injection, in human subjects, CJC-1295 DAC may increase plasma GH levels by 2- to 10-fold for 6 days or longer and plasma IGF-1 levels by 0.5- to 3-fold for 9 to 11 days. [3]

6. Growth hormone - Wikipedia

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   Genes for human growth hormone, known as growth hormone 1 (somatotropin; pituitary growth hormone) and growth hormone 2 (placental growth hormone; growth hormone variant), are localized in the q22-24 region of chromosome 17 [7] [8] and are closely related to human chorionic somatomammotropin (also known as placental lactogen) genes.

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

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   All five patients received injections of human growth hormone from cadavers for several years as a treatment for very short stature, according to the study, which was published Monday in the ...

8. Growth hormone deficiency - Wikipedia

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   Diagnosis involves blood tests to measure growth hormone levels. [2] Treatment is by growth hormone replacement using synthetic human growth hormone. [1] The frequency of the condition is unclear. [2] Most cases are initially noticed in children. [1] The genetic forms of this disease are estimated to affect about 1 in 7,000 people. [3]

9. 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.