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Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors II pp 211–248Cite as

The Inhibin/Activin Family of Hormones and Growth Factors

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Inhibins and activins were initially recognized as gonadal protein hormones which modulate follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) production by the anterior pituitary gland. Since the recent chemical characterization of these proteins as hetero- and homodimers related to the TGF-β family, it has become clear that they are broadly distributed and have actions on multiple tissues where they may play a variety of types of roles as hormonal, paracrine, and autocrine regulators of cellular function and proliferation.

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Vale, W., Hsueh, A., Rivier, C., Yu, J. (1990). The Inhibin/Activin Family of Hormones and Growth Factors. In: Sporn, M.B., Roberts, A.B. (eds) Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors II. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 95 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74781-6_8

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