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Releasing factor
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Noun
- 1 any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone wordnet
- 2 a substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland wordnet
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