Targeting growth hormone function: strategies and therapeutic applications

M Lu, JU Flanagan, RJ Langley, MP Hay… - Signal transduction and …, 2019 - nature.com
Human growth hormone (GH) is a classical pituitary endocrine hormone that is essential for
normal postnatal growth and has pleiotropic effects across multiple physiological systems …

Growth hormone's links to cancer

CL Boguszewski, MCS Boguszewski - Endocrine reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Several components of the GH axis are involved in tumor progression, and GH-induced
intracellular signaling has been strongly associated with breast cancer susceptibility in …

Growth hormone releasing hormone signaling promotes Th17 cell differentiation and autoimmune inflammation

L Du, BM Ho, L Zhou, YWY Yip, JN He, Y Wei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dysregulation of Th17 cell differentiation and pathogenicity contributes to multiple
autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Previously growth hormone releasing hormone …

GHRH antagonists support lung endothelial barrier function

MA Uddin, MS Akhter, SS Singh, KT Kubra… - Tissue …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GHRH) regulates the release of growth
hormone from the anterior pituitary gland. GHRH also acts as a growth and inflammatory …

Actions and potential therapeutic applications of growth hormone–releasing hormone agonists

AV Schally, X Zhang, R Cai, JM Hare, R Granata… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we briefly review the identification of GHRH, provide an abridged overview of
GHRH antagonists, and focus on studies with GHRH agonists. Potent GHRH agonists of JI …

Antinflammatory, antioxidant, and behavioral effects induced by administration of growth hormone-releasing hormone analogs in mice

L Recinella, A Chiavaroli, G Orlando, C Ferrante… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) antagonist MIA-690 and GHRH agonist MR-
409, previously synthesized and developed by us have demonstrated potent antitumor …

Growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor antagonist modulates lung inflammation and fibrosis due to bleomycin

C Zhang, R Cai, A Lazerson, G Delcroix… - Lung, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) is a 44-amino acid peptide that
regulates growth hormone (GH) secretion. We hypothesized that a GHRH receptor (GHRH …

Magnetoelectric nanoparticles for delivery of antitumor peptides into glioblastoma cells by magnetic fields

TS Stewart, A Nagesetti, R Guduru, P Liang… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: We studied externally controlled anticancer effects of binding tumor growth inhibiting
synthetic peptides to magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENs) on treatment of glioblastomas …

Splice variant of growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor drives esophageal squamous cell carcinoma conferring a therapeutic target

X Xiong, X Ke, L Wang, Z Yao, Y Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The extrahypothalamic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) and its cognate
receptors (GHRH-Rs) and splice variants are expressed in a variety of cancers. It has been …

Growth hormone-releasing hormone in lung physiology and pulmonary disease

C Zhang, T Cui, R Cai, M Wangpaichitr, M Mirsaeidi… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) is secreted primarily from the hypothalamus,
but other tissues, including the lungs, produce it locally. GHRH stimulates the release and …