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growth hormone releasing factor

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noun

Biochemistry.

  1. a substance produced in the hypothalamus that regulates the release of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland. GRF

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Dr. Vale discovered CRF in 1981 and the next year found a second hormone, called the growth hormone releasing factor, or GRF, which had also eluded the older scientists.

From New York Times

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