THE biologic role of cyclic AMP (adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate), at least as it is understood today, is shown in Figure 1. After release from an endocrine gland, a hormone is transported to ...

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). Naturally ...

In April, 1985, the FDA banned the distribution of pituitary growth hormone (hGH) because of the possibility that it was contaminated by a “slow virus”. All parents of children receiving hGH ...

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a hormone that’s essential to our development. Most people produce enough HGH throughout their lifetime. But for those with a deficiency in growth hormone (or a few ...

In contrast to children, neonates have high serum growth hormone (GH) levels during the first week of life. If normative data were available, this phenomenon might enable diagnosis of GH ...