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  • noun biology One of a set of cells, in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, that produces the growth hormone somatotropin

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Examples

  • Growth hormone also feeds back to inhibit GHRH secretion and probably has a direct (autocrine) inhibitory effect on secretion from the somatotroph.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • High blood levels of IGF-I lead to decreased secretion of growth hormone not only by directly suppressing the somatotroph, but by stimulating release of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • High blood levels of IGF-I lead to decreased secretion of growth hormone not only by directly suppressing the somatotroph, but by stimulating release of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • High blood levels of IGF-I lead to decreased secretion of growth hormone not only by directly suppressing the somatotroph, but by stimulating release of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • High blood levels of IGF-I lead to decreased secretion of growth hormone not only by directly suppressing the somatotroph, but by stimulating release of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • High blood levels of IGF-I lead to decreased secretion of growth hormone not only by directly suppressing the somatotroph, but by stimulating release of somatostatin from the hypothalamus.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Growth hormone also feeds back to inhibit GHRH secretion and probably has a direct (autocrine) inhibitory effect on secretion from the somatotroph.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Growth hormone also feeds back to inhibit GHRH secretion and probably has a direct (autocrine) inhibitory effect on secretion from the somatotroph.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Growth hormone also feeds back to inhibit GHRH secretion and probably has a direct (autocrine) inhibitory effect on secretion from the somatotroph.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Growth hormone also feeds back to inhibit GHRH secretion and probably has a direct (autocrine) inhibitory effect on secretion from the somatotroph.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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