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Multiple Effects of Growth Hormone in the Body: Is it Really the Hormone for Growth?

1 Jan 2016

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In this review, we analyze the effects of growth hormone on a number of tissues and organs and its putative role in the longitudinal growth of an organism. We conclude that the hormone plays a very important role in maintaining the homogeneity of tissues and organs during the normal development of the human body or after an injury. Its effects on growth do not seem to take place during the fetal period or during...

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PMID: 27773998
DOI: 10.4137/cmed.s38201

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