Medical Definition of Somatotropin release-inhibiting hormone

1. Gastrointestinal and hypothalmic peptide hormone (two forms: 14 and 28 residues), found in gastric mucosa, pancreatic islets, nerves of the gastrointestinal tract, in posterior pituitary and in the central nervous system. Inhibits gastric secretion and motility: in hypothalamus/pituitary inhibits somatotropin release. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatotropin Release-inhibiting Hormone

somatotrope
somatotropes
somatotroph
somatotrophic
somatotrophic adenoma
somatotrophic hormone
somatotrophin
somatotrophins
somatotrophs
somatotropic
somatotropic hormone
somatotropin
somatotropin-releasing factor
somatotropin-releasing hormone
somatotropin release-inhibiting factor
somatotropin release-inhibiting hormone (current term)
somatotropins
somatotropism
somatotype
somatotypes
somatotypology
somatrem
somatroph
somatrophs
somatropin
somber
sombered
somberer
somberest
sombering

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