Growth hormone deficiency (GHD), or human growth hormone deficiency, is a medical condition resulting from not enough growth hormone (GH). Generally the...

used as a prescription drug to treat children's growth disorders and adult growth hormone deficiency. In the United States, it is only available legally...

achondroplasia, a genetic disorder whereby the limbs are diminutive. Growth hormone deficiency is responsible for most other cases. There are also many other...

gigantism), deficiency, the recent phenomenon of HGH controversies, growth hormone in sports, and growth hormone for cows. Growth hormone deficiency is treated...

(FSH) and/or luteinizing hormone (LH) leading to sex hormone abnormalities. Growth hormone deficiency is more common in people with an underlying tumor than...

Growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH), also known as somatocrinin or by several other names in its endogenous forms and as somatorelin (INN) in its pharmaceutical...

known as mechano-growth factor (MGF). Laron syndrome (LS), also known as growth hormone insensitivity or growth hormone receptor deficiency (GHRD), is an...

main clinical application of these agents is the treatment of growth hormone deficiency. They also see black market use, similarly to anabolic steroids...

Laron syndrome (LS), also known as growth hormone insensitivity or growth hormone receptor deficiency (GHRD), is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized...

in the growth hormone locus. Mutations in or deletions of the gene lead to growth hormone deficiency and short stature. Placental growth hormone Somatotropin...