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GHRH Is More Than a Neurohormone: Direct Effects on Immune, Cardiac, and Wound Healing Systems

evidence
The takeaway

GHRH has biological activities beyond hypothalamic GH stimulation — direct effects on immune cells, cardiac function, wound healing, and tissue growth independent of GH release.

Key finding

GHRH has biological activities beyond hypothalamic GH stimulation — direct effects on immune cells, cardiac function, wound healing, and tissue growth

What the researchers found

GHRH has biological activities beyond hypothalamic GH stimulation — direct effects on immune cells, cardiac function, wound healing, and tissue growth independent of GH release.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2011.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
GHRH Is More Than a Neurohormone: Direct Effects on Immune, Cardiac, and Wound Healing Systems
What was found?
GHRH has biological activities beyond hypothalamic GH stimulation — direct effects on immune cells, cardiac function, wound healing, and tissue growth independent of GH release.

Read the original research

Growth hormone-releasing hormone: not only a neurohormone.

Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM, 22(8), 311-7

Citation

Kiaris, Hippokratis; Chatzistamou, Ioulia; Papavassiliou, Athanasios G; Schally, Andrew V. (2011). Growth hormone-releasing hormone: not only a neurohormone.. Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM, 22(8), 311-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tem.2011.03.006