growth-hormone

Pfizer Inc. sells a drug, Somavert, that blocks growth-hormone activity in people and is used to treat acromegaly, a condition related to gigantism.

Dwarfism Offers Longevity Clues Gautam Naik 2011

AquAdvantage contains a growth-hormone gene from another salmon that helps it grow twice as fast as conventional farmed fish.

Industry Fights Altered Salmon Alicia Mundy 2010

An alternative approach would be to find a drug that reduces growth-hormone activity, once an adult stops growing.

Dwarfism Offers Longevity Clues Gautam Naik 2011

Company officials said the eggs from the genetically modified fish include a growth-hormone gene from the Pacific chinook salmon, giving them the advantage of growing to market size in half the time of conventional salmon.

Lawmakers urge FDA to go slow on genetically modified salmon 2011

Here was little Messi, who arrived at Barcelona as a 13-year-old in need of expensive growth-hormone treatment, showing that he is capable of overpowering a couple of football's tough guys.

Lionel Messi mesmerises in Madrid but football is the star | Richard Williams 2011

Dr. Longo suggests that a preventive treatment could target adults with high growth-hormone activity in order to bring it down to an average level.

Dwarfism Offers Longevity Clues Gautam Naik 2011

Then a 2008 Stanford University study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that in athletes, too, growth-hormone injections increased muscle bulk but not strength, and in fact might be a cause of muscle fatigue and joint-pain.

Robert E. Murphy: Unlike Steroids, HGH Can Harm Without Helping 2010

Because of a growth-hormone deficiency diagnosed when he was 11, Messi was an undersized youth growing up in Rosario, a city about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires.

Lionel Messi leads potent Argentina at 2010 World Cup 2010

At 13, Barcelona moved Messi and his family to Spain, where he trained at the club's youth academy and received growth-hormone injections.

Lionel Messi leads potent Argentina at 2010 World Cup 2010

Then a 2008 Stanford University study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that in athletes, too, growth-hormone injections increased muscle bulk but not strength, and in fact might be a cause of muscle fatigue and joint-pain.

Unlike Steroids, HGH Can Harm Without Helping 2010