Growth hormone from monkey and human pituitary glands

✍ Scribed by Choh Hao Li

• Book ID: 102664819
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 512 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(195707/08)10:4<698::aid-cncr2820100409>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

HE importance of the pituitary gland in T the inception, growth, and control ol' cancer, both in experimental animals and in human subjects, is well known and need not be reviewed. What does still remain a question, however, is which factor or factors secreted from this master endocrine gland participate in carcinogenesis or are responsible for the control of neoplastic growth. Earlier studies in our laboratory have indicated that continuous administration of growth hormone to normal rats, either niale or female, arcelera tes the development of neoplasms in the lung, the adrenal medulla, and the reproductive 2T No ncoplastic response, however, was noted in hypophy~ectomized animals From the