releasing factor in English
noun
1
a substance that, when secreted by the hypothalamus, promotes the release of a specified hormone from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
In weightlessness there is a decreased activity of spinal ganglia neurons of the hypothalamic nuclei producing arginine, vasopressin and growth hormone releasing factor .
noun
releasing hormone
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1. Ras activator nucleic acid molecules - guanine nucleotide releasing factor grf4, polypeptides and methods of use
2. Where the antagonists were effective, the growth hormone-releasing factor induced increase in cAMP accumulation was augmented.
3. Human placenta is a major source of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), and local effects of CRF in fetal membranes and placenta have been shown, i.e., adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and oxytocin release from cultured placental cells, as well as prostaglandin release from amnion, Chorion …