Quick answer
What is Ghrelin?
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Ghrelin is a peptide, grouped on this site under Growth hormone secretagogues, and the 12 research records kept here are 6 from studies in rats or mice, 2 from trials in people and 4 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 13,906 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 0.09 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Growth hormone secretagogues group.
The endogenous acylated peptide ligand of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor; the retrieved records report growth hormone release and central regulation of feeding.[1, 2]
Stated in the titles of the cited 1999 Nature and 2001 Nature papers.
What kind of records
A small number of the records kept here are trials in people.
That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: 2 interventional human trial records among 12 indexed records.
What this does not settle
- What it does in a body. Counting records is not reading them, and nothing here has been read in full.
- Whether it causes harm. No adverse-effect row was taken from any source for this entry.
- How long it lasts. No pharmacokinetics source was retrieved for this entry.
- What the other 13,894 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach. Nature (1999). pmid:10604470
- A role for ghrelin in the central regulation of feeding. Nature (2001). pmid:11196643