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insulin-like growth factor (IGF),

hormones that stimulate protein synthesis and sulfation. IGF I and II play a role in uterine and placental growth and early fetal growth during pregnancy. IGF I is also called somatomedin C.

insulin-like growth factor

one of the twenty or so substances, additional to the classic bone-regulating hormones, which exert an effect on bone cell metabolism. See also somatomedin C.

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