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pituitary extract

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pituitary extract
n
(Medicine / Pharmacology) a preparation of the pituitary gland, used in medicine for the therapeutic effects of its hormones


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Growth hormone derived from human pituitary extract has not been approved for treatment in the United States since April 1985, when its use led to several deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare, infectious neurological condition.
NIH has begun injecting monkeys with samples of all the pituitary extracts that have been used in U.
 
 
 
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