Corticotropin-releasing hormone A potent neuropeptide that stimulates synthesis and secretion of proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides; it is markedly ↑ in pregnancy, Cushing syndrome due to ectopic CRH; its activity is turned off by a 37 kD binding protein. See Proopiomelanocortin.

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