Somatorelin is a
diagnostic agent for determining
growth hormone deficiency
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD), or hyposomatotropism, is a medical condition resulting from not enough growth hormone (GH). Generally the most noticeable symptom is that an individual attains a short height. Newborns may also present low blood ...
. It is a
recombinant version of
growth hormone-releasing hormone
Growth may refer to:
Biology
* Auxology, the study of all aspects of human physical growth
* Bacterial growth
*Cell growth
*Growth hormone, a peptide hormone that stimulates growth
*Human development (biology)
*Plant growth
*Secondary growth, gro ...
(GHRH).
Somatorelin has been used to study hormone deficiency (particularly
growth hormone deficiency
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD), or hyposomatotropism, is a medical condition resulting from not enough growth hormone (GH). Generally the most noticeable symptom is that an individual attains a short height. Newborns may also present low blood ...
), cognitive impairment, sleep disorders, and aging.
See also
*
List of growth hormone secretagogues
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
References
Peptides
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