releasing hormone

releasing hormone

any of a class of hypothalamic hormones that travel via the hypothalamic–pituitary portal system to control the release of hormones by the anterior pituitary gland. Examples are corticotropin-releasing factor and gonadotropin-releasing hormone.

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