Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) Revision Year: 2012 Publisher: Ferring Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Drayton Hall, Church Road, West Drayton, UB7 7PS
Pharmacotherapeutic group: Tests for pituitary function
ATC-code: V04CD05
Somatorelin is normally synthesised in the hypothalamus and stimulates the secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland. GHRH is the synthetic form of somatorelin and is identical in structure and function to somatorelin released by the human hypothalamus. Somatorelin physiologically increases plasma growth hormone levels.
After intravenous application of different doses of somatorelin in man, the concentrations of somatorelin in plasma increase within 5 minutes to the maximum value, followed by a rapid decrease. The basal values are reached again after 30-40 minutes.
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