Title: THE INFLUENCE OF THE GROWTH PROMOTING HORMONE OF THE ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY UPON GROWTH ACTIVITY IN THE LONG BONES OF THE RAT<sup>1</sup>1
Abstract: THE EXPERIMENTS reported here were undertaken to determine if a resumption of growth activity, induced by administration of the growth promoting hormone of the anterior lobe of the pituitary, could be demonstrated histologically in the presence of persistent but inactive zones of growth in the long bones. We also wished to determine if such growth activity could be correlated with the increase in body weight characteristic of the action of the hormone in appropriately selected experimental animals. Most of the studies of the growth promoting hormone have been concerned with the end results of growth; that is, gross increase in size and weight of the animals or of individual organs and increase in length of the bones. The literature on these studies, and on the question of the existence of a separate growth promoting hormone, has recently been reviewed (1).
Publication Year: 1940
Publication Date: 1940-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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