The Science of Therapeutic Peptides · Volume III
Growth Hormone, Growth Factors & Body Composition
The growth-hormone axis, growth factors, and body composition.
12 chapters
- III.1CJC-1295A growth-hormone-releasing peptide that solved its engineering problem, lost its clinical programme, and now sells in two forms only one of which was ever tested in people
- III.2Follistatin 344 / 315One protein, two numbers, and the muscle-growth ceiling that evolution installed
- III.3GDF-11The near-twin of myostatin that was briefly sold as young blood
- III.4GHRHThe hormone the disease revealed
- III.5GHRP-2A hunger signal found before the hunger hormone, and the diagnostic that outlived the drug
- III.6GHRP-6The hexapeptide that found a receptor nobody was looking for, and the hormone that was missing
- III.7HexarelinThe growth-hormone drug that failed, and the heart receptor it found on the way down
- III.8hGH Fragment 176–191The piece of a hormone that was supposed to burn fat without being a hormone
- III.9IpamorelinThe first selective growth hormone secretagogue, and what selectivity turned out to be worth
- III.10MGF and PEG-MGFA splice variant, a twenty-four-residue peptide, and the distance between them
- III.11SermorelinThe shortest fragment that still works
- III.12TesamorelinA hormone found in a tumour, one acyl group, and the long argument about what growth hormone is for