Guide

Growth hormone secretagogues

Built from index records dated 2026-10-09 Compiled by an automated pipeline, checked by The Peptide Observer editorial desk How this site works

Growth hormone secretagogues is a group of 8 entries in this index, of which this site describes 4 and holds 4 back pending review.

Only the described entries are counted anywhere on this page.

What this group is

This group holds 8 entries. 7 of them carry a receptor or a pathway named in its records; the other 1 carries none.

7 of them point at the same place: Ghrelin receptor. A shared target is what holds this group together.

Ghrelin receptor

Named in the records of 7 of the 8 entries in this group.

The entries described here

GHRP-6

12 records kept: 7 in rodents, 5 not stated. The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
AOD9604

11 records kept: 4 in rodents, 7 not stated. The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
GHRP-2

12 records kept: 5 in rodents, 7 not stated. The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
Capromorelin

12 records kept: 2 in rodents, 10 not stated. The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.

Publication years of all 47 records kept for the described entries in this group. Oldest 1993, newest 2026. An old record is not a worse record, but a group whose marks all sit to the left has not been looked at recently.

What is held back

4 entries in this group are built and then held back, because publishing them without a qualified reviewer would risk being read as medical guidance. They are: Ipamorelin, Hexarelin, Ibutamoren and Ghrelin. This page says nothing about what their records contain. Why entries are held back.

What is not known

Whether the members of this group have anything in common beyond what the counts above show. A shared receptor is a shared target, not a shared result.
What any of these entries does in a body. Nothing on this site has been read in full, and no record here has been appraised by anyone qualified to appraise it.
Anything at all about the held-back entries named above, beyond the fact that they exist and are being withheld.

Where this comes from

This page reprints no wording from the underlying index. These are the published records that index cites for the existence of this group, listed so the grouping can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Structural basis of human ghrelin receptor signaling by ghrelin and the synthetic agonist ibutamoren. Nat Commun (2021). pmid:34737341
Ipamorelin, the first selective growth hormone secretagogue. Eur J Endocrinol (1998). pmid:9849822
Regulation of Pit-1 expression by ghrelin and GHRP-6 through the GH secretagogue receptor. Mol Endocrinol (2001). pmid:11518797