Hormonal Regulation of Human Growth
- 9 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 316 (15) , 941-943
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198704093161510
Abstract
How does a human being reach normal adult height and weight? Inheritance sets the broad limits — to wit, the shortest elephant towers over the tallest mouse. Nutrition and other environmental factors, including the psychosocial, interact with a panoply of hormones and hormone-like substances and their receptors to bring a person to the full measure of his or her genetic destiny.Among the humoral agents, growth hormone (somatotropin) has long been known to have a pivotal role.1 A deficiency of pituitary growth hormone results in proportionate dwarfism that is responsive to treatment with growth hormone. It is now known, however, . . .Keywords
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