Somatotropin Definition

Somatotropin Sentence Examples

• The cow's naturally occurring growth hormone, somatotropin, was first discovered in the 1920s.

• Safety of milk from cows treated with bovine somatotropin.

• Human growth hormone (hGH) (somatotropin) is produced by somatotropes in the anterior pituitary gland.

• Somatotropin (hGH) is secreted by somatotropes in the anterior pituitary gland.

• The somatotropin test also aids in documenting the excess hGH production responsible for gigantism or acromegaly, and confirms underactivity or overproduction of the pituitary gland (hypopituitarism or hyperpituitarism, respectively).