Question

Name a releasing hormone.

Answer 1

Releasing hormone:

1. Releasing hormones are peptide hormones, which are produced within the hypothalamus and transferred via the hypothalamohypophyseal portal veins to the adenohypophysis, where they regulate the synthesis or release of adenohypophyseal hormones.

Examples of releasing hormones are:

1. Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) regulates the pituitary secretion of growth hormone (GH),
2. Corticotrophin-releasing hormone,
3. Dopamine,
4. Somatostatin,
5. Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone,
6. Thyrotrophin-releasing hormone.