Recognizing the urgent need for an up to date review of new and innovative research on growth hormone gh secretagogues this exclusive work furnishes the state of the art on the mechanisms of action design synthesis evaluation and clinical applications of gh secretagogues including orally active and xenobiotic gh releasing compounds beginning with a thorough historical perspective on . Growth hormone secretagogues in clinical practice edited by barry b bercu richard f walker marcel dekker 1998 436 xxii pages 195 isbn 0 8247 9832 5. Recognizing the urgent need for an up to date review of new and innovative research on growth hormone gh secretagogues this exclusive work furnishes the state of the art on the mechanisms of action design synthesis evaluation and clinical applications of gh secretagogues including orally active and xenobiotic gh releasing compounds. Growth hormone secretagogues in clinical practice ross richard j m 1998 11 01 000000 growth hormone secretagogues in clinical practice is a collection of papers presented at the 2nd international symposium on gh secretagogues the growth hormone secretagogues are synthetic peptides which were initially derived from metenkephalin