Hypothalamic Releasing Hormone (Noun)
Meaning
Any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The process of regulation begins with the release of hypothalamic-releasing hormones from the hypothalamus to stimulate or inhibit the release of anterior pituitary hormones.
- Hypothalamic-releasing hormones play a key role in controlling various physiological processes such as growth and development by stimulating or inhibiting hormone production.
- A defect in the production or function of a specific hypothalamic-releasing hormone can disrupt normal hormone production and result in hormone deficiencies.
- In response to signals from the hypothalamus, the hypothalamic-releasing hormone thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulates the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary gland.
- Hypothalamic-releasing hormones also regulate reproductive functions by stimulating the release of the gonadotropins luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary gland.