Word: somatotropin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duplicating Nature. From the pitui-tary's front lobe. Biochemist Li has isolated no fewer than five other hormones, including the enormously potent adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). Three other hormones he discovered are involved in the female reproductive cycle; finally there is the human growth hormone (HGH, or somatotropin), which may yet prove to be the most important...