Peptidase inactivation of hypothalamic releasing hormones
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Published on: April 28, 2016
Abstract:
With the structural characterization of the hypothalamic hormones, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH), thyrotrophin-releasing (TRH), melanocyte-stimulating hormone release-inhibiting hormine (MIH), and growth hormone release-inhibiting hormone, (GH-RIH or somatostatin), it has been possible to investigate their enzymic inactivation by peptidases which are present at various sites in the body. Enzymes may play an important part in the control of polypeptide hormone levels and the peptidases acting on these four hypothalamic hormones may regulate the amount of TRH, LH-RH, MIH and somatostatin released from the hypothalamus, or their action at the level of the pituitary and their removal from the circulation. By studying the peptidase enzymes, further information may be obtained on the physiological mechanisms controlling the secretion and actions of hypothalamic hormones, as well as on the design of analogues with increased or competitive activity.
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