Growth is a complex process, driven and controlled by many hormonal and metabolic interactions. The somatotroph axis plays a central role in this process (Fig. 5.1) and insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-I) and its binding proteins (Fig. 5.2) modulate the many peripheral hormone and metabolic signals to promote linear growth.1
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Ketelslegers, J. M., Beauloye, V., Maiter, D., Maes, M., Underwood, L. E., & Thissen, J. P. (2007). Nutrition and growth. In Growth Disorders, Second Edition (pp. 72–89). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863569.c9
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