Similarly, a genetically engineered drug called erythropoietin releasing factor, which promotes red-cell production in anemic patients, could be used by athletes to increase their oxygen-carrying capacity.
But is it the same as the hypothetical hypothalamic growth hormone releasing factor?
One is stress, which increases levels in the brain of a hormone called C.R.F., or corticotropin releasing factor, which may act on the amygdala.
Then the hypothalamic parotid hormone releasing factor was partially purified but not completed because of the rejection of a research grant application.
Further studies, however, showed that the sucrose effect occurred indirectly by inhibiting secretion of the hypothalamic parotid hormone releasing factor.
Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) is another releasing factor secreted by the hypothalamus.
"Isn't this supposed releasing factor for the death hormone part of a natural process?"
"Have you been able to prove that the releasing factor for the death gene was introduced into the eyedrops used by the ophthalmological office?"
"That would have been an antibody to the deathhormone releasing factor," Jason said.
A clearer rationale underlies the development of antidepressants that block corticotrophin releasing factor, a hormone released in the brain during stress.