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Corticorelin ovine triflutate

Corticorelin, available commercially as corticorelin ovine triflutate (tradename Acthrel), is a synthetic form of the peptide human corticotropin-releasing hormone (hCRH), a potent stimulator of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) release from the anterior pituitary. Endogenous forms hCRH are involved in the stress response and its main function is stimulation of the pituitary...
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Matched Description: … of a pituitary source from an ectopic source of excessive ACTH secretion. ... It provides a differential diagnosis for Cushing's disease (a pituitary source of ACTH excess) or of ... hormone (hCRH), a potent stimulator of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) release from the anterior pituitary …
Matched Categories: … Tests for Pituitary Function ... Pituitary Hormone-Releasing Hormones …

Thyrotropin alfa

Thyrotropin alfa is a recombinant form of thyroid stimulating hormone used in performing certain tests in patients who have or have had thyroid cancer. It is also used along with a radioactive agent to destroy remaining thyroid tissue in certain patients who have had their thyroid gland removed because of...
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Matched Description: … radioactive agent to destroy remaining thyroid tissue in certain patients who have had their thyroid gland ... The amino acid sequence of thyrotropin alfa is identical to that of human pituitary thyroid stimulating …
Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Pituitary Hormones, Anterior ... Anterior Pituitary Lobe Hormones and Analogues ... Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Lypressin

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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Pituitary Hormones, Posterior ... Posterior Pituitary Lobe Hormones ... Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Corifollitropin alfa

Corifollitropin alfa, also known as Elonva is used in women undergoing fertility treatment to stimulate the development of more than one mature egg (oocyte) at a time in the ovaries. This drug used together with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist, a type of medicine also used in fertility treatments. Elonva...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Gonadotropins, Pituitary ... Pituitary Hormones, Anterior …

Terlipressin

Terlipressin is a synthetic analogue of vasopressin, which is an endogenous neurohormone that acts as a vasoconstrictor. It is a prodrug of lypressin, or lysine vasopressin. Compared to endogenous vasopressin, terlipressin has a longer half life and increased selectivity for the V1 receptor. As a potent vasopressor, terlipressin has been...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Pituitary Hormones, Posterior ... Posterior Pituitary Lobe Hormones ... Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Relugolix

Relugolix is a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist used in the treatment of several hormone-responsive conditions. It was first approved in Japan in 2019, under the brand name Relumina, for the symptomatic treatment of uterine fibroids, and more recently by the United States' FDA in 2020, under the brand name...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Flurandrenolide

A corticosteroid used topically in the treatment of various skin disorders. It is usually employed as a cream or an ointment, and is also used as a polyethylene tape with an adhesive. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p733)
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Oxytocin

Sir Henry H. Dale first identified oxytocin and its uterine contractile properties in 1906.[A229008,A228593,A229108] Like all other neurohypophysial hormones, oxytocin is composed of nine amino acids with a disulfide bridge between the Cys 1 and 6 residues.[A229008,A228593] In the mid-1950s, synthetic oxytocin was successfully synthesized by a biochemist named Vincent...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Pituitary Hormones, Posterior ... Posterior Pituitary Lobe Hormones ... Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Chorionic Gonadotropin (Human)

Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), a polypeptide hormone produced by the human placenta. Endogenously produced HCG interacts with the LHCG receptor of the ovary and promotes the maintenance of the corpus luteum during the beginning of pregnancy. This allows the corpus luteum to continuously secrete the hormone progesterone during the first...
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Matched Description: … The alpha sub-unit is essentially identical to the alpha sub­ units of the human pituitary gonadotropins …
Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Gonadotropins, Pituitary ... Pituitary Hormones, Anterior …

Potassium perchlorate

Potassium perchlorate is an inorganic salt with the chemical formula KClO4. It is a strong oxidizer with the lowest solubility of the alkali metal perchlorates. Potassium is most commonly used in flares and automobile airbags . The use of potassium perchlorate as a component in sealing gaskets for food containers...
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Matched Description: … Potassium perchlorate acts as a competitive inhibitor of iodine uptake by the thyroid gland and attenuates …

Technetium Tc-99m pertechnetate

Technetium Tc-99m pertechnetate is a radiopharmaceutical diagnostic agent composed of an oxoanion with the chemical formula TcO4-. Pertechnetate has a wide variety of uses within nuclear medicine as it distributes within the body to a similar extent as iodine. It also concentrates in the thyroid gland, salivary glands, gastric mucosa,...
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Matched Description: … It also concentrates in the thyroid gland, salivary glands, gastric mucosa, and choroid plexus. ... However, in contrast to the iodide ion, the pertechnetate ion is released unchanged from the thyroid gland ... technetium-99m pertechnetate is indicated for imaging of the following tissues: thyroid, salivary gland …

Clomifene

A triphenyl ethylene stilbene derivative which is an estrogen agonist or antagonist depending on the target tissue.
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Histamine

A depressor amine derived by enzymatic decarboxylation of histidine. It is a powerful stimulant of gastric secretion, a constrictor of bronchial smooth muscle, a vasodilator, and also a centrally acting neurotransmitter.
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Bromocriptine

Bromocriptine mesylate is a semisynthetic ergot alkaloid derivative with potent dopaminergic activity. It inhibits prolactin secretion and may be used to treat dysfunctions associated with hyperprolactinemia. Bromocriptine is also indicated for the management of signs and symptoms of Parkinsonian Syndrome, as well as the treatment of acromegaly. Bromocriptine has been...
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Iodide I-123

Iodide I-123 (as sodium Iodide I-123) is a radioactive isotope of iodine used in nuclear medicine for the diagnostic study of thyroid disease. Following oral administration, I-123 is absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and is taken up by the thyroid gland. After incorporation, a gamma camera is used to detect...
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Matched Description: … administration, I-123 is absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and is taken up by the thyroid gland ... Iodine is commonly used in thyroid function diagnostic tests as this gland normally absorbs iodine through …

Osilodrostat

Osilodrostat is an inhibitor of 11β-hydroxylase (also referred to as CYP11B1), the enzyme that catalyzes the final step in the biosynthesis of endogenous cortisol. It is used to lower circulating cortisol levels in the treatment of Cushing's disease, a disorder in which cortisol levels are chronically and supraphysiologically elevated. Cushing's...
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Matched Description: … Cushing's disease is often the result of ACTH hypersecretion secondary to a pituitary tumor, and surgical ... treatment option for patients in whom removal of the causative tumor is not an option or for whom previous pituitary …

Brigatinib

Brigatinib, originally named AP26113, is a reversible dual inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). It presents selectivity against the mutant forms of EGFR compared to the wild-type. It also exhibits selectivity against 9 different Crizotinib-resistant mutants of the EML4-ALK fusion gene, which is a...
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Trilostane

Trilostane is an inhibitor of 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase used in the treatment of Cushing's syndrome. It was withdrawn from the United States market in April 1994.
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Histrelin

Histrelin is a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist that acts as a potent inhibitor of gonadotropin when administered as an implant delivering continuous therapeutic doses. This drug is a synthetic analog of naturally occurring GnRH with a higher potency. Histrelin implants are non-biodegradable, diffusion-controlled, hydrogel polymer reservoirs containing histrelin acetate that...
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Dutasteride

Dutasteride is an oral synthetic 4-azasteroid commonly marketed under the trade name Avodart. It is a novel dual 5α-reductase inhibitor that works by blocking both isoforms of 5α-reductase enzymes in a potent, selective, and irreversible manner. Type I and II 5α-reductase enzymes convert testosterone into dihydrotestosterone (DHT), a primary hormonal...
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Matched Description: … ), a primary hormonal mediator that plays a role in the development and enlargement of the prostate gland …

Setmelanotide

Setmelanotide is the first available treatment for patients with pro-opiomelanocortin, proprotein subilisin/kexin type 1, or leptin deficiencies. It is an agonist of the melanocortin 4 receptor. Earlier attempts at agonizing MC4R (such as LY2112688) lead to successful weight loss, but also an increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Other...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormones ... Pituitary Hormones, Anterior …

Melatonin

Melatonin is a biogenic amine that is found in animals, plants and microbes. Aaron B. Lerner of Yale University is credited for naming the hormone and for defining its chemical structure in 1958. In mammals, melatonin is produced by the pineal gland. The pineal gland is small endocrine gland, about...
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Nutraceutical
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Matched Description: … The pineal gland is small endocrine gland, about the size of a rice grain and shaped like a pine cone ... In mammals, melatonin is produced by the pineal gland. …

Cetrorelix

Cetrorelix is a man-made hormone that blocks the effects of Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH). GnRH controls another hormone that is called luteinizing hormone (LH), which is the hormone that starts ovulation during the menstrual cycle. When undergoing hormone treatment sometimes premature ovulation can occur, leading to eggs that are not...
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Matched Categories: … Pituitary Hormone-Releasing Hormones ... Pituitary and Hypothalamic Hormones and Analogues …

Estradiol benzoate

Estradiol Benzoate is a pro-drug ester of DB00783, a naturally occurring hormone that circulates endogenously within the human body. Estradiol is the most potent form of all mammalian estrogenic steroids and acts as the major female sex hormone. As a pro-drug of estradiol, estradiol benzoate therefore has the same downstream...
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Estrone sulfate

Estrone sulfate (as estropipate) is a form of estrogen. It has several uses such as: alleviate symptoms of menopause as hormone replacement therapy, treatment some types of infertility, treatment of some conditions leading to underdevelopment of female sexual characteristics, treatment of vaginal atrophy, treatment of some types of breast cancer...
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