title: The use of GH as pharmacological agent (minireview).
abstract: Growth hormone (GH) has been traditionally used a drug for substitution therapy of GH deficiency, but since the wide availability of biosynthetic GH it has also been used as a pharmacological agent. In this report the presently available data are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O.Box 9600,2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wit
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000188:drug therapy; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000188:drug therapy; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D014424:Turner Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D019382:Human Growth Hormone