Learning Objectives
- Describe the effects of growth hormone in growth and metabolic function
- Explain how insulin-like growth factor mediate its action in the periphery
- List the stimuli that regulate growth hormone secretion
- Describe the hypothalamus-pituitary-growth hormone axis
- Explain the roles of hypothalamic factors, glucose and IGF-I in regulation of growth hormone
- Name the different growth factors
- Explain the causes and the consequence of excess and deficiency of growth hormone
Growth Hormone
- stimulating factors?
- inhibiting factors?
- chemical nature?
- biosynthesis?
- secretory cell and axis?
- Regulation
- mode of transport in blood?
- tropic or trophic effect?
- target cell/ tissue/ organ?
- mechanism of action?