History of Recombinant Human Growth Hormones
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Human Growth Hormones have come a long way only after which they could be used not only for the treatment of deadly diseases and deficiencies but also for ant-aging, weight loss and other cosmetic treatments.
Before, science could discover how to produce safe and exact replica of ‘human growth hormones’, pituitary glands of animals were used as a source of many hormones, such as growth hormone and insulin. Unfortunately, these glandular growth hormones carried infectious pathogens, different from bacteria, fungi, parasites, viroids and/ or viruses. When this glandular extract of growth hormone was injected into children to treat their stunted growth, it resulted in neuro-immuno-degenerative disease.
Then started the quest or the tough task of achieving Hgh production in the lab. Pharmaceutical companies knew that there was big money to be made if they could create HGH in a test tube. Thus began the race of drug companies to produce the 191 amino acid hormone in a test tube. The first news of success came in 1985 when Genetech claimed to produce an exact replica of Hgh in its lab, but soon it was found out that the recombinant GH they made was a 190 amino acid match - they were one amino acid off from HGH. Then came Eli Lilly into the picture, who in 1986 created a 191 amino acid hormone that was an identical match to the HGH produced by the pituitary gland. The drug is called Humatrope and is one of the most popular form of R-Hgh.
Today, Recombinant Growth Hormones are widely used all over in the medical world and to say twenty years have passed since recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) was approved by the FDA for clinical use in patients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD).
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