Block 11 - Week 4

Question 1

Testosterone

Answer 1

Steroid sex hormone - androgen hormone receptor agonist

T is can be reduced to DHT by 5a- reductase which has higher affinity to the androgen receptor than T

Question 2

Somatropin

Answer 2

Synthetic human growth hormone receptor agonist

Used to treat dwarfism and growth failure

Stimulates skeletal growth at the epiphyseal plates at the ends of a growing bone