Pharmacology & biology

GHRH

Also known as: growth hormone releasing hormone · ghrh analog

Growth hormone-releasing hormone — the hypothalamic signal that tells the pituitary to release growth hormone.

In plain terms

Sermorelin and CJC-1295 are GHRH analogs: they amplify the "release" instruction. Because they work through the natural pathway, their effect is bounded by pituitary capacity and by somatostatin, the opposing "stop" signal.

Compounds where this comes up

Guides that use this term

Growth hormone secretagogues: what they can and can’t do

CJC-1295, ipamorelin and MK-677 reliably raise growth hormone and IGF-1 in humans. What the trials have not shown is that raising those numbers produces the outcomes people take them for.

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