| 单词 | melanocyte-stimulating hormone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelanocyte-stimulating hormone melanocyte-stimulating hormone n. a hormone that stimulates melanin synthesis and dispersal by melanocytes and melanophores; abbreviated MSH. ΚΠ 1953 A. B. Lerner & T. B. Fitzpatrick in M. Gordon Pigment Cell Growth 329 There are many indications that the pituitary gland produces a melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) (Rattner et al.). 1954 A. B. Lerner et al. in Jrnl. Clin. Endocrinol. & Metabolism 14 1465 We have called the pituitary factor which darkens skin the melanocyte-stimulating hormone or MSH, a term first suggested by W. H. Rattner. Names used previously include melanophore hormone, melanophore-dilating principle, intermedin, and others. 1971 New Scientist 12 Aug. 365/2 Melanocyte-stimulating hormone and corticotrophin..are two of the many polypeptide hormones secreted by the pituitary gland. 1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) xi. 339 The melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) exists in two forms of 13 and 22 amino acids both related closely to ACTH. < as lemmas |
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