Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that promotes the utilization of fat by the body and is a precursor to the endorphins.
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- noun biochemistry A
pituitary hormone that promotes themetabolism offat , and is a precursor to theendorphins
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[lipotrop(ic) + –in.]
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Some evidence has also been presented that peptide hormones such as & #223 lipotropin, ACTH and peptides structurally related to them, initially thought to be of pituitary origin, are found widely distributed in the brain in extrahypothalamic regions (53-56).
Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems 1977
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