- a variation of secretagog.
secretagogue
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He reached out to Edwin Lee, an endocrinologist in Florida and his college housemate’s father, for advice on the growth hormone secretagogue peptides.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
The study focused on the role of one molecule involved in how our bodies deal with hunger: the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, GHSR, which mediates the effect of ghrelin, known as the "hunger hormone."
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Details of the discovery can be found in the study "Nutrient-sensing growth hormone secretagogue receptor in macrophage programming and meta-inflammation," published in the January issue of Molecular Metabolism.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
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