In body growth and development, the endocrine system plays a very important role, so that a human being can have normal growth, the secretion of a hormone is neededKnown as somatotropin, this is directly secreted by the first portion of the pituitary gland known as the adenohypophysis, this is thanks to the somatotropic cells located in the wings of the adenohypophysis. Growth hormone is abbreviated with the acronym GH (grown hormone), as well as the name of somatotropin, specifically its structure is polypeptide, and it is made up of a total of 191 amino acids, in the field of agriculture it has been studied in depth in order to control the growth of cattle, ensuring the management of well-endowed calves.
The secretion of growth hormone occurs in a state of sleep, for this reason there is an old belief that it grows during the state of sleep, it can also occur in stress, exercise, and by excessive glucose intake, in the period where executes its action is in the states of childhood and adolescence, while in the infant stage growth is decelerated because its production is minimal. The way in which GH levels are quantified is thanks to a blood study, and as mentioned above it is physiologically increased in children than in adults, in children it should have an approximate value of 5-20 micrograms, while in adults its reference value is 3-5 micrograms, mostly theseanalyzes are made on suspicion of poor body development.
Dwarfism is one of the pathologies in which the person does not have sufficient GH production, therefore, it does not reach the ideal size of bones and organs related to the age of the patient, for this type of situations somatotropin of Synthetic form, being its main indication in children who have a growth disorder, the ingestion of these drugs can produce adverse effects such as: tachycardia, retention of phosphorus, sodium, lead, and increased blood glucose concentration, for which that insulin doses should be applied in conjunction, this is because oral hypoglycemic agents inhibit the action of the hormone.
