During wound healing, it can be removed from existing extracellular proteins by proteolysis and used as a chemical attractant for inflammatory and endothelial cells It can increase the production of messenger RNA in collagen, elastin, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans in fibroblasts
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This is a significant advantage over full-length growth hormone, which worsens insulin resistance
Over a period of 6 months, patients lost an average of 12.8 kg, 11.3 kg, and 6.7 kg on the 1 mg, 0.5 mg, and 0.25 mg doses, respectively, as compared to a 2.2 kg weight loss in the placebo group [76]
These include serious infection, uremia or renal failure, drugs with bone marrow suppression properties (e.g., chloramphenicol), or concurrent undiagnosed folic acid or iron deficiency anemia