Sermorelin

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Sermorelin
Clinical data
Trade names Geref
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Pregnancy
category
  • US: C (Risk not ruled out)
Routes of
administration
Injection
ATC code
Legal status
Legal status
  • US: Discontinued
Identifiers
Synonyms GRF 1–29
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Chemical and physical data
Formula C149H246N44O42S
Molar mass 3357.882 g/mol
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Sermorelin (INN) (trade name is Geref), also known as GHRH (1-29), is a growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) analogue used as a diagnostic agent. It is a 29-amino acid polypeptide representing the 1–29 fragment from endogenous human GHRH, and is thought to be the shortest fully functional fragment of GHRH.[1] It is used as a diagnostic agent to assess growth hormone (GH) secretion.[2]

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  1. ^ Prakash A, Goa KL (August 1999). "Sermorelin: a review of its use in the diagnosis and treatment of children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency". BioDrugs. 12 (2): 139–57. doi:10.2165/00063030-199912020-00007. PMID 18031173. 
  2. ^ Pharmacology (Rang, Dale, Ritter & Moore, ISBN 0-443-07145-4, 5th ed., Churchill Livingstone 2003).