Quick answer
What is GHRP-6?
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GHRP-6 is a peptide, grouped on this site under Growth hormone secretagogues, and the 12 research records kept here are 7 from studies in rats or mice and 5 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 699 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 1.7 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Growth hormone secretagogues group.
Acts through the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, the ghrelin receptor.[1]
Stated in the title of the cited 2001 Molecular Endocrinology paper.
What kind of records
The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: no interventional human trial record; 7 rodent and 0 in vitro records among 12.
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 687 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- Regulation of Pit-1 expression by ghrelin and GHRP-6 through the GH secretagogue receptor. Mol Endocrinol (2001). pmid:11518797