Insulin-like Growth Factor

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
IGF
Pronunciation
/ˈɪnsələn laɪk groʊθ ˈfæktər/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. People have had study to indicate insulin and insulin-like growth factor play an important part in skeletal muscle development.
  2. Insulin-like growth factor ( IGF ) system is the most important endocrine factor influencing fetal growth.
  3. The Influences of insulin-like growth factor - ⅰ and Simvastatin on the proliferation of human lung fibroblast
  4. Insulin-like growth factor is a protein that is released from the liver in response to growth hormone.
  5. Effect of insulin-like growth factor 1 on osteoblast proliferation and osteocalcin expression in osteotylus of diabetic rats after fracture

Other meanings of IGF

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